[Evelyn (Mary)] Mundus Muliebris: or the Ladies Dressing-Room unlock'd, and her toilette spread. In Burlesque. Together With the Fop-Dictionary, Compiled for the Use of the Fair Sex, first edition, first issue, without hyphen after "Covent" in imprint and "Maryland" in caption title on B1, lacking final blank f., title torn and repaired at head with part of first four letters supplied by hand, neat tear to inner margin just touching some text to first 4ff., closely shaved at head occasionally affecting headlines or page numbers, light browning, ink and pencil ownership inscriptions to endpapers, early half calf, rebacked and recornered, [Keynes 99; Wing E3521], small 4to, for R. Bentley in Russel-Street in Covent Garden, 1690.

⁂ The Christopher Wordsworth - Walter William Skeat copy of a scarce work by John Evelyn's eldest daughter, Mary, who died of smallpox 5 years prior to publication. Mundus Muliebris is a satire on the style and speech of the Francophile fashion in vogue at the time, the preface is likely written by John Evelyn.

Provenance: Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885, English bishop and man of letters, nephew of William Wordsworth (ink inscription)); Walter William Skeat (1835-1912, British philologist (pencil inscription).