‘Beauty to Go’ – Two Cosmetics Handbooks from the Ferguson Collection

On our recent trip to Glasgow, I had the pleasure of inspecting the Ferguson collection on site. As it ties in with my broader interest in early modern deformity, I chose to examine some of its handbooks on beauty and cosmetics. Two of them I would like to introduce today and use them for a wider reflection on early modern cosmetic how-to books for women: Beauties treasury: or, the ladies vade mecum (Sp Coll Ferguson Af-d.53) and The ladies companion: or, modern secrets and curiosities, neve...