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Beauty, Personal - England - Early works to 1800

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    To all gentlemen and ladies : God the author of all things, to make man in love with his wife, in her state of innocency, he made her smooth, soft, delicate and fair, to intice him to imbrace her.

    | Date: [1675]
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    The only delicate beautifying cream, for gentlemen and ladies.

    | Date: [1716]
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    In great Suffolk-street near the Hay-market, at a jewelers house, with a red balcony, lives a gentlewoman : who, by much travelling and many years study, practice, and experience has attained the most rare secrets in the world for beautifying the face.

    | Date: [1690?]
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    The only delicate beautyfying cream : for the face, neck, and hands.

    | Date: printed in the year, 1716
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    Agnodice; the woman physician : Dwelling at the hand and urinal, next door to the Blue Ball in Hayden-yard in the minories, near Aldgate.

    | Date: [between 1680 and 1690]
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