Beauty, Personal - Early works to 1800
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The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any sort of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a supplement containing the choicest receipts, and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Hannah WoolleyDate: 1685- E-books
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Abdeker or, the art of preserving beauty. Translated from an Arabic manuscript.
Le Camus, Antoine 1722-1772.Date: 1756- Books
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The gentlewoman that lived in Red-Lyon-Court, is removed to Racket Court, near Fleet-bridge, the third door on the right-hand : Who hath a most excellent wash to beautifie the face, as many of the greatest quality can testifie: its vertue is to take out all manner of wrinckles, freckles, pimples, redness, morphew, sun-burn, yellowness, or any other accident, caused too often by mercurial poysonous washes.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Hugh PlatDate: 1603- Books
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In St. Martins Court in St. Martins-lane; at the sign of the golden heart, up one pair of stairs, liveth a gentlewoman, who, by the long experience.
Date: [1690?]