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Cosmetics - Early works to 1800
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For whitening and softening the hands and skin, the late Queen of France's royal chemical wash ball. At only one shilling each.
Date: 1800?]- Books
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories, with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1611- 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.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1603- Books
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England's newest way in all sorts of cookery, pastry, and all pickles that are fit to be used. Adorn'd with copper plates, setting forth the manner of placing dishes upon tables; and the newest fashions of mince-pies. By Henry Howard, Free-Cook of London, and late Cook to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, and since to the Earl of Salisbury, and Earl of Winchelsea. Likewise the best receipts for making cakes, mackroons, biskets, Ginger-Bread, French-Bread: As also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying and Drying Fruits, Confectioning and making of Creams, Syllabubs, and Marmalades of several sorts.
Howard, Henry, active 1708.Date: 1710