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Plocacosmos, or The whole art of hair dressing : wherein is contained ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c., as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair : also, ample and wholesome rules to preserve the hair : the hair completely analyzed, as to its growth, nature, colour, &c. and all and every article used in the hair, on the head, face, &c. as, false hair, perfumery, cosmetics, &c. clearly analyzed and examined : with a history of the hair and head dress from the earliest ages to the present time, particularly as they have appeared upon the English stage for these last two hundred years : with strictures on the present performers belonging to each theatre : the plan of this work requiring it, there are also complete rules for the management of children and education of youth, and excellent rules for the preservation of the health and happiness of age : being a guide through the seven ages of man : the whole interspersed with moral thoughts, being necessary for all families

Title: Plocacosmos, or The whole art of hair dressing : wherein is contained ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c., as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair : also, ample and wholesome rules to preserve the hair : the hair completely analyzed, as to its growth, nature, colour, &c. and all and every article used in the hair, on the head, face, &c. as, false hair, perfumery, cosmetics, &c. clearly analyzed and examined : with a history of the hair and head dress from the earliest ages to the present time, particularly as they have appeared upon the English stage for these last two hundred years : with strictures on the present performers belonging to each theatre : the plan of this work requiring it, there are also complete rules for the management of children and education of youth, and excellent rules for the preservation of the health and happiness of age : being a guide through the seven ages of man : the whole interspersed with moral thoughts, being necessary for all families / by James Stewart ; with an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.
Author: Stewart, James (Hairdresser)
Publication: London : Printed for the author, No. 12, Old Broad-Street; and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, MDCCLXXXII [1782]

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Additional Authors

Delegal, James

Description

[8], 435, [1] pages, [11] leaves of plates : illustrations; 26 cm (8vo)

Alternative Title

Plocacosmos
Whole art of hair dressing

Subjects

Note

"Price five shillings"--Half title.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3I⁴ 3K²(3K2 verso blank).
Spencer Coll. copy lacks leaf A1 (half title).
Illustrations: 11 full-page engravings, signed: Delegal, London. The first, depicting "Shakespeares seven ages," is printed in sanguine; others depict hairstyles for men and women.

Indexed In (note)

English short title catalogue

Additional Formats (note)

Also available on microfilm (History of women, Reel 82, no. 531).
Also available online via Eighteenth Century Collections Online (British Library copy) and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Scripps College copy).

Binding (note)

Modern quarter white paper and blue paper boards.

Call Number

MEM (Delegal) 15-75

LCCN

07016184

OCLC

4923302

Author

Stewart, James (Hairdresser), author.

Title

Plocacosmos, or The whole art of hair dressing : wherein is contained ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c., as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair : also, ample and wholesome rules to preserve the hair : the hair completely analyzed, as to its growth, nature, colour, &c. and all and every article used in the hair, on the head, face, &c. as, false hair, perfumery, cosmetics, &c. clearly analyzed and examined : with a history of the hair and head dress from the earliest ages to the present time, particularly as they have appeared upon the English stage for these last two hundred years : with strictures on the present performers belonging to each theatre : the plan of this work requiring it, there are also complete rules for the management of children and education of youth, and excellent rules for the preservation of the health and happiness of age : being a guide through the seven ages of man : the whole interspersed with moral thoughts, being necessary for all families / by James Stewart ; with an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.

Publisher

London : Printed for the author, No. 12, Old Broad-Street; and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, MDCCLXXXII [1782]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, T145753

Additional Formats

Also available on microfilm (History of women, Reel 82, no. 531).

Also available online via Eighteenth Century Collections Online (British Library copy) and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Scripps College copy).

Binding

Modern quarter white paper and blue paper boards. NN

Place of Publication

England London.

Added Author

Delegal, James, engraver.

Research Call Number

MEM (Delegal) 15-75

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