[PERFUMERY] George William Askinson: Perfumes and their Preparation

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Jul 14, 2023

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  George William Askinson

  Perfumes and their Preparation: A Comprehensive and Practical Treatise on Perfumery

  New York: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1907.
  Third Edition.
  23.5cm x 15cm. viii, 312 pages, [6] advertisements. Red cloth, gilt lettering.

  Containing complete direction for making handkerschief perfumes, smelling-salts, sachets, fumigating pastils; Preparations for the care of the skin, the mouth, the hair; Cosmetics, hair dyes, and other toilet articles. With a detailed description of aromatic substances, their nature, tests of purity, and wholesale manufacture by George William Askinson. Translated from the Third German Edition by Isidor Furst. Revised and with additions by Charles Ruce. Illustrated by thirty-two engravings.

  Tape stains to endpapers. Tanning. Final index and first advertisements pages loose, rear gathering tender. Fair Condition.

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