Présentation de l'éditeur
Prefaces are out of fashion, and that it is now customary to plunge at once in medicts res, I feel bound in this instance to deviate from the general rule, and to explain how I was led to emerge from the depths of my laboratory, and to appear thus before the public in an entirely new character. Four years ago, I had to prepare for the Society of Arts a paper on The Art of Perfumery, its History and Commercial Development, and, to qualify myself for the task, I was forced to devour a huge pile of hig hooks in order to ascertain through what mysterious arts the Ancients ministered to the gratification of their olfactory sense, and to the embellishment of the human face divine. Two jears later, I was called upon to form part of the Jury at the Great Exhibition, and to draw up the official report of the Perfumery
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Originally published in 1875. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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