Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Walker, A., Mrs
Title:
Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends ; and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. Vice President of the College of Surgeons, &c. &c. &c. ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads by J.W. Wright, and of figures by E.T. Parris.
Published / Created:
London : Thomas Hurst, 65, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1837.
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 432 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
RA778 .W35 1837
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Contains 1 engraved plate and 10 transformational lithographed plates, i.e. 10 hand-colored lithographs each with hand-colored costume overlay, lithographed by M. Gauci after J. W. Wright and E.T. Paris.

With a preliminary half-title leaf.

Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, p. 889

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in three-quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards, with gilt edges and marbled endpapers.
Subject Terms:
Beauty, Personal. | Women -- Health and hygiene. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Hygiene -- Great Britain. | Costume -- Great Britain. | Women's clothing -- Great Britain. | Hurst, T. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1837. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1837.
Contributors:
Carlisle, Anthony, Sir, 1768–1840. | Gauci, M., ill. | Parris, E. T. (Edmund Thomas), 1793–1873, ill. | Wright, John William, 1802–1848, lithographer.