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• A Defence of Cosmetics (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), by Max Beerbohm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perfumery and Kindred Arts: A Comprehensive Treatise on Perfumery (Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1877), by R. S. Cristiani (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Toilet and Cosmetic Arts in Ancient and Modern Times: With a Review of the Different Theories of Beauty, and Copious Allied Information, Social, Hygienic, and Medical (London: R. Hardwicke, 1866), by Arnold James Cooley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Appraisal of the Safety of Chemicals in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics (Austin, TX: Association of Food and Drug Officials of the United States, 1959), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colourful Cosmetics and Jewellery, by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)

• Dictionnaire de la Beauté: ou, La Toillette Sans Dangers (in French; Paris: L. Cordier, 1826), by César Gardeton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Journal of Cosmetic Science (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists (full serial archives)

• Perfumery and Kindred Arts: A Comprehensive Treatise on Perfumery (Philadelphia: H. C. Baird, 1877), by R. S. Cristiani (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (1960), by Steffen Arctander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Toilet and Cosmetic Arts in Ancient and Modern Times: With a Review of the Different Theories of Beauty, and Copious Allied Information, Social, Hygienic, and Medical (London: R. Hardwicke, 1866), by Arnold James Cooley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (1960), by Steffen Arctander (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Beauty Culture (London: Hutchinson, 1898), by H. Ellen Browning (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Journeyman Barber (partial serial archives)

• At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies in Hirsute History (Cottingham: J. R. Tutin, 1904), by William Andrews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• No More Alibis! (Chicago: Photoplay Pub. Co., 1935), by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Etiquette of Beauty (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1927), by Dorothy Cocks, illust. by Josephine Arnold Bonney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arts of Beauty, or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet: With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1858), by Lola Montez (multiple formats at Google)
• The Arts of Costume and Personal Appearance (second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1955), by Grace Margaret Morton, contrib. by Carolyn Ruby, Bess Steele, and Mary E. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lady's Dressing Room (London: Cassell and Company, 1893), by baronne Staffe, trans. by Lady Colin Campbell (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Physical Beauty: How to Develop and Preserve It (New York: Social Culture Publications, c1922), by Florence Courtenay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes for You (second edition; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1954), by Mildred Graves Ryan and Velma Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauty Culture (London: Hutchinson, 1898), by H. Ellen Browning (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Etiquette for Ladies; With Hints on the Preservation, Improvement, and Display of Female Beauty (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Health, Beauty, and the Toilet: Letters to Ladies From a Lady Doctor (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1886), by Anna Bonus Kingsford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jewish Manual: or, Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery , With a Collection of Valuable Recipes and Hints Relating to the Toilette (1846), by Judith Cohen Montefiore (Gutenberg text)
• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionnaire de la Beauté: ou, La Toillette Sans Dangers (in French; Paris: L. Cordier, 1826), by César Gardeton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Ladies Dictionary: Being a General Entertainment of the Fair-Sex, A Work Never Attempted Before in English (London: Printed for J. Dunton, 1694), by N. H.
  • page images in the UK
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Eileen's Journey: History in Fairyland (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Ernest Arthur Jelf, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)

• Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Sander L. Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Arts of Costume and Personal Appearance (second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1955), by Grace Margaret Morton, contrib. by Carolyn Ruby, Bess Steele, and Mary E. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes for You (second edition; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1954), by Mildred Graves Ryan and Velma Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothes With Character (revised edition; Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., c1954), by Hazel Thompson Craig and Ola Day Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Color and Line in Dress (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, c1938), by Laurene Hempstead, illust. by Sara Whitney Olds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothing: An Introductory College Course (Chicago and Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1935), by Alpha Latzke and Beth Quinlan, ed. by Benjamin R. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clothing and Style: For Dressmakers, Milliners, Buyers, Designers, Students of Clothing, and Stylers (c1930), by William H. Dooley (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Art of Dressing Well: A Complete Guide to Economy, Style and Propriety of Costume (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1870), by S. Annie Frost
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dress and Vice (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association, n.d.), by Frances E. Willard (HTML at NIU)
• Textiles and Costume Design (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1917), by Evelyn Peters Ellsworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Wisconsin
• Thrift Clothing (1918), by Anna Hedges Talbot (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Costume Design: Practical Suggestions for Those Interested in Art, Sewing, History and Literature (Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co., 1920), by Edna Mann Shover (page images at Wisconsin)
• Art in Dress (New York: P. C. Brown, c1922), by P. Clement Brown (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes (London: E. Grant Richards, 1907), by Wilfred Mark Webb (page images at Wisconsin)
• Instructive Costume Design (first edition; Pelham, NY: Edward C. Bridgman, c1922), by Emil Alvin Hartman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)
• Correct Clothing Methods (second edition; Dallas: Green and Co., 1948), by Shirley Marie Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Avian Anatomy: Integument (2 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1972), by Alfred M. Lucas and Peter R. Stettenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentatio de Examine Physiologico Organi Visus et Systematis Cutanei (in Latin; Bratislava: Typ. Universitatis, ca. 1823), by Jan Evangelista Purkyně
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.