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The Finishing Touch: Cosmetics through the Ages
Julian Walker
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Description for The Finishing Touch: Cosmetics through the Ages
Hardcover. This fascinating new book explores some of the materials and bizarre methods that women - and men - have used in the past to enhance or hold on to their looks. Num Pages: 160 pages, 30 black and white. BIC Classification: HBTB; WJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 294.
The quest for physical beauty is essentially as old as Woman herself', according to A Complete Guide to Personal Loveliness from 1937. This fascinating new book explores some of the materials and methods that women - and men - have used in the past to enhance or hold on to their looks. Julian Walker opens up a curious, sometimes uncomfortable history of the human need to look beautiful. He reveals dozens of the (occasionally desperate) ways in which people have tried to make themselves more attractive. The book tells a story of ingenuity and imagination, but ... Read more
The quest for physical beauty is essentially as old as Woman herself', according to A Complete Guide to Personal Loveliness from 1937. This fascinating new book explores some of the materials and methods that women - and men - have used in the past to enhance or hold on to their looks. Julian Walker opens up a curious, sometimes uncomfortable history of the human need to look beautiful. He reveals dozens of the (occasionally desperate) ways in which people have tried to make themselves more attractive. The book tells a story of ingenuity and imagination, but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
British Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712357524
SKU
V9780712357524
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-34
About Julian Walker
Julian Walker is a writer and artist who leads workshops at the British Library on literature, art, history, printing and the English language. His previous books include How to Cure the Plague and Other Curious Remedies (British Library, 2013) and Trench Talk: Words of the First World War (History Press, 2012).
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