Preface by Alphonse Kar, Brussels, Muquardt - P., Dentu - London. Chapman and Hall. sd (1870), in-8 °, XV pp. 431. Publisher's binding, full red cardboard, adorned with a gilded plaque, title engraved in relief on the upper plate.
 First edition more complete than the English edition, published in 1865 under the title: The Book of Perumes. Due to the famous perfumer, inventor of "rimmel", the first industrial eyelash shadow, this fundamental work traces the history of perfumes in all civilizations from antiquity to the publication of the book. It is teeming with precious historical, technical and anecdotal details. What was worth to him to be largely "looted ... Note that here Rimmel abstains from making his publicity, contrary to the majority of the manuals of the time which were only a pretext to their sponsors to praise their productions Copy in good condition.