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Wimples and Crisping Pins: Being Studies in the Coiffure and Ornaments of Women by CHILD, THEODORE
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$75.00
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Book description: New York: Harper & Brothers. Good. 1895. Hard Cover. Viii,209 pages, well illustrated, cloth, rebound ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. Art critic and travel writer Theodore Child (1846-1892) died of cholera in Persia. From the introduction: "Coiffure is an art, and a great art, the chiefest of the decorative arts, inasmuch as its function is to adorn the most perfect of nature's work, the beauty of women. Therefore have I ventured to write this little work of reveries and reflections on the dressing of hair and the adornment of beauty." .
- Bookseller: Military History Bookshop
 (US)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 18986
- Format/binding: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1895
- Keywords: HAIRDRESSING, COIFFURE, HAIR, STYLES, BEAUTY, ART, DESIGN, FASHION, M595
- Subjects:
HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming;
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