The finishing touch : cosmetics through the ages / Julian Walker.

64 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm.

Beauty and cosmetics, 1550-1950 / Sarah Jane Downing.

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm

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