(CON) There is a contemporary ink signature on the title page. The bottom of G3 has an advertisement for Thomas Southerneís Oroonoko.||(CON) A8, B-F12, G4, Contents. A1r Title, verso blank; A2r-A4r Preface; A4v-A8v The Table; B1r-G3v Text; G4 blank.||(REF) Nine copies in ESTC;||(BIN) Contemporary calf, gilt lettering, red label.||(ABS) The first French edition was published in 1693 and this first English edition must have been translated from this, and not the 1696 first French illustrated edition. Simon Barbe lived in the rue des Gravilliers, Paris, where he was in business as a perfumer at the sign of the Golden Fleece. In this book are sections for powders, wash-balls, essences and oils perfumed with flowers, perfumes for the mouth, sweet waters, incense, perfumed gloves, colour mixing and snuff.