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; ... By James Stewart. With an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.
Stewart, James (Hairdresser)
Category
Books
Date
1782
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3084579
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],435,[1]p.,plates . 8vo.. Accession no. 4531. Partially uncut. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Inscribed in pencil: "An extremely rare book, it is doubtful if another perfect copy exists. Lowndes, the most gifted of our bibliographers could only give the title, he gives no collation neither does he quote the sale of a copy perfect or imperfect". Binding: original blue publisher's boards with plain paper spine, edges uncut. Pasteboards covered with two copies of a prospectus for A complete library of Christian dogma (untraced) which has been pasted, face down, to the boards.
Makers and roles
Stewart, James (Hairdresser), author