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MONTEZ, Lola. The Arts Of Beauty; Or, Secrets Of A Lady's Toilet. With Hints To Gentlemen On The Art Of Fascinating.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1858). First U.S. edition. 8vo., original brown blindstamped cloth, title in gilt within a gilt wreath on the upper board, spine lettered in gilt, xviii, 132, (12)pp.ads. Ownership signature, some light scattered foxing, tiny nick at the foot of the spine but otherwise a fine, bright copy.
Lola Montez (1821-1861) was a dancer and courtesan. Born Marie Dolores Eliza Gilbert, she became Lola Montez after a period of training in Spain. She made her stage debut in Paris in 1844, and, while touring the continent, she met “an indeterminate number of liaisons, Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas among her supposed lovers…” (Edward T. James, Notable American Women, 1670-1950. Volume 2, pp. 564-566). While in Munich, she became mistress to Ludwig I of Bavaria, and fled during the revolution of 1848. Sailing to America, Montez made her Broadway debut in New York on Dec. 29, 1851. She settled in Grass Valley, California, where she “purchased a house, dismissed her husband, smoked cigars, (and) acquired a pet bear…” (ibid). In 1855, she toured Australia and upon her return to America she became a lecturer and author. In the above book, Montez includes recipes for cosmetics, washes, pastes, creams and powders. In her introduction, she states: “My design in this volume is to discuss the various Arts employed by my sex in the pursuit of this paramount object of woman's life.” Having suffered a stroke in 1860, Montez died (some sources citing tertiary syphilis as the cause) the following year at the age forty-two in a New York boarding house.
MONTEZ, Lola. The Arts Of Beauty; Or, Secrets Of A Lady's Toilet. With Hints To Gentlemen On The Art Of Fascinating. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1858). First U.S. edition. 8vo., original brown blindstamped cloth, title in gilt within a gilt wreath on the upper board, spine lettered in gilt, xviii, 132, (12)pp.ads. Ownership signature, some light scattered foxing, tiny nick at the foot of the spine but otherwise a fine, bright copy.
Lola Montez (1821-1861) was a dancer and courtesan. Born Marie Dolores Eliza Gilbert, she became Lola Montez after a period of training in Spain. She made her stage debut in Paris in 1844, and, while touring the continent, she met “an indeterminate number of liaisons, Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas among her supposed lovers…” (Edward T. James, Notable American Women, 1670-1950. Volume 2, pp. 564-566). While in Munich, she became mistress to Ludwig I of Bavaria, and fled during the revolution of 1848. Sailing to America, Montez made her Broadway debut in New York on Dec. 29, 1851. She settled in Grass Valley, California, where she “purchased a house, dismissed her husband, smoked cigars, (and) acquired a pet bear…” (ibid). In 1855, she toured Australia and upon her return to America she became a lecturer and author. In the above book, Montez includes recipes for cosmetics, washes, pastes, creams and powders. In her introduction, she states: “My design in this volume is to discuss the various Arts employed by my sex in the pursuit of this paramount object of woman's life.” Having suffered a stroke in 1860, Montez died (some sources citing tertiary syphilis as the cause) the following year at the age forty-two in a New York boarding house.
