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Beauty's day: Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames
- Author
- Favre, de, abbé.
- Preferred Title
- Quatre heures de la toilette des dames.
- Title
- Beauty's day: Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames / by the Abbé de Favre ; translated by H.G. Keene ; and illustrated with the copperplate engravings, from designs by Leclerc, contained in the original edition of the work.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London (16 Henrietta St., Covent Garden) : Vizetelly, [1890]
- Description
- 60 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
- Other contributors
- Keene, H.G., 1825-1915. Leclerc, Pierre Thomas, b. ca. 1740.
- Notes
- In verse. Original French edition, 1779. No. 134 of 850 copies: "with a single set of the plates (in sanguine), on hand-made paper." Imprint date from LC (Mansell NF0054419) With engraved half-title: Beauty's day: a poem in four cantos by M. de Favre. Publisher's advertisements, [4] p. at end, not included in collation. Bookplate of Charles John Shoppee, front paste-down endpaper.
- References
- Mansell, NF0054419.
- Kinsey subjects
- Mythology. Love.