Percy Anecdotes
a collection of monthly parts (1820-1823) by "Sholto PEREKOP and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery of Mount Benger." Their real names were Thomas Byerley (died 1826), first editor of the "Mirror," and Joseph Clinton Robertson (died 1852), projector and editor of the "Mechanics Magazine"; the work owed its name to the Percy coffee house in Rathbone Place, their usual place of meeting during its progress. An edition was prepared by John Timbs (1868), and another enlarged edition in 1887.
PERIANTH son, the dress, or the dwelling, having also some value as disinfectants. Perfumes of various sorts have been held in high estimation from the most ancient times. The Egyptians, Hebrews, Phœnicians, Assyrians, and Persians are known to have made great use of them, as did also the Greeks and Romans.
Perfumes are partly of animal but chiefly of vegetable origin. They may be divided into two classes, crude and prepared. The former consist of such animal perfumes as musk, civet, amberobtain sula in the