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The earliest use of “tall, dark and handsome” in print actually described a woman. The 1866 book Once a Week: An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Popular Science and Art poked fun at the women-looking-for-husband ads that were common in what the author, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, referred to as “the cheap papers.”
It read: “Twenty Thousand Husbands Wanted — Lonely One, with a little property, and twenty years of age, wants a husband to protect her. She is tall, dark and handsome.”
It read: “Twenty Thousand Husbands Wanted — Lonely One, with a little property, and twenty years of age, wants a husband to protect her. She is tall, dark and handsome.”