Author: [DULARE (Jacques-Antoine)]:
Title: Pogonologia, Or a Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards. Translated from the French.
Description: Exetere: Printed for R. Thorpe. And sold by T, Cadell, in the Strand, London. 1786. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 12mo, 177 x 99 mms., pp. [iv], viii [ix Contents, x Errata], 143 [144 blank], contemporary calf,k gilt rules on spine, red leather label; joints rubbed, corners worn, but a good to very good copy. Possibly translated by Edward Drewe--cf. BM, v. 57, p. 11. Wellcom In her entertaining and informative introduction to a series of articles on hair, "Raising Hair," Angela Rosenthal asserts that hair "Emerging from the flesh and thus both of, and without the body - at once corporeal and a mere lifeless extension - hair occupies and extraordinary position, mediating between the natual and cultural," noting that " it is the very absence of the beard in European eighteenth-century culture that formed the rationale for Jacques Antoine Dulaure's Pogonologia or a Philosophical and Historical Essay on Beards, published in 1786, which was an open attempt to garner support for men's facial hair." Angela Rosenthatl, "Raising Hair." Eighteenth Century Studies (38, 1), Fall, 2004. ESTC T42757 locates 8 copies in UK libraries, and Huntington, NYPL, UCLA, Kislak Centre in the USA; and Supreme Court of Victoria.

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