The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, And her Toilette Spread, Together, With a Fop-Dictionary, and a Rare and Incomparable Receipt to make Pig, or Puppidog Water for the Face

London: Printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing Cross... 1700. Small 4to, 173 x 138 mms., pp. [viii], 23 [24 blank], ex-library to judge from the binding, which is probably from the 195s, title-page soiled, , a few leaves shaved at head with loss to headlines or pagination, occasional ink staining, more extensively to C4 with some words obscured and some resultant holing, quarter brown morocco, binder's cloth, title blocked in gilt on front cover This work by Mary Evelyn, 1665-1685 was first published by R Bentley in 1690, with a preface by the authors' father, John Evelyn. Joan K. Perkins in her entry in ODNB of Mary's mother Mary Evelyn [née Browne], said of her that " the sixth of eight children born to John and Mary Evelyn, is credited with authorship of Mundus muliebris, a brief satire in tetrameter couplets on fashionable women's clothing, accoutrements, and behaviour, first published in 1690. Sole attribution of the piece to her is questionable: de Beer points out that the one reference to the work in her father's diary may suggest that she contributed to rather than wrote it (see Evelyn, Diary, 4.423; Nevinson, 5–12; Greer and others, 324). Other writings in Mary Evelyn's hand survive; these are primarily religious meditations and rules for her own conduct. She was dutiful and devout, playful and pious, and her death at the age of nineteen grieved her family deeply. She spent most of her short life at the family home at Sayes Court, Deptford. She studied French and Italian, history and literature, music and dancing. After her death her father eulogized her in his diary: 'The justnesse of her stature, person, comelinesse of her Countenance and gracefullnesse of motion, naturall, & unaffected (though more than ordinaryly beautifull), was … of the least, compar'd with the Ornaments of her mind' (Evelyn, Diary, 4.421)." The work has attract a great deal of scholarly and critical commentary in the last fifty years. ESTC R40185 notes that this is a "Reissue of the second edition (Wing E3523 [R31459]), with a new title page and without C3 the separate dated title page: The fop-dictionary." This was the last edition to be published in the 17th century, and I have not found any reprints in the 18th century. The only location given in ESTC is the BL. See the M. A. thesis by Deborah Faith Ramkhelawan, "This Elegant Science": Satire and Sociability in Mary Evelyn's Mundus Muliebris, or the Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd (1690).