A good hair day in the saleroom

A 1782 first of James Stewart’s 'Plocacosmos: or, the Whole Art of Hair Dressing' illustrated with 10 plates showing hairstyles was offered as part of a Forum Auctions sale.

It showed some light foxing or browning, but was uncut in the rubbed, stained and rebacked origina…

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