The Book of Perfumes

Rimmel, Eugene

Published by Chapman and Hall 1865, London, 1865

xx, 266 pp. Contains about 170 illustrations, including 13 plates, one in colour. All plates present. Publisher's original purple, gilt decorated and lettered cloth, recased. All edges gilt. Fading to cloth with a couple of minor marks. Bumping and minor wear to extremities, with a little spine lean and foxing to text. Gilt crest on the front board depicting a censer and other smell-disseminating equipments, the motto to which is 'Non cuique datum est habere nasum', meaning 'it isn't given to everybody to have a nose', which is rather splendid. The author, Eugene Rimmel (1820-1887), was a French perfumer and businessman responsible for manufacturing and marketing some of the earliest commercially made cosmetics. He joined his father's perfumery business in London's Bond Street in 1834 and founded House of Rimmel. They went on to produce their first cosmetic products the same year. He and his father introduced the first commercial non-toxic mascara product. It became so popular that rimmel is to this day the word for mascara in several languages including French and Italian. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 75943

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Book of Perfumes
Publisher: Chapman and Hall 1865, London
Publication Date: 1865
Binding: Gilt-decorated Cloth
Illustrator: Bourdelin, Thomas
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.