MANNERS AND RULES OF GOOD SOCIETY.
by A MEMBER OF THE ARISTOCRACY" :
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Frederick Warne & Co., (1955). First Joan Storey edition. An endlessly reprinted Victorian guide to etiquette, which had reached its forty-eighth edition by 1929, but is here fully revised and updated by Joan Storey to take cognizance of the post-war world. With chapters on the hostess; introductions; accidental meetings; hand-shaking; invitations; cards; parties; luncheons; dinners; bridge and cocktail parties; garden parties; tennis; children's parties; balls; engagements; weddings; christenings; anniversaries; mourning; present giving; special points of etiquette for men; travelling by air, and much else besides. Crown 8vo (20cm). x,(198)pp. Original cloth; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket just lightly used and slightly spotted on flaps.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19289
- Title
- MANNERS AND RULES OF GOOD SOCIETY.
- Author
- A MEMBER OF THE ARISTOCRACY" :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Frederick Warne & Co., (1955).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Etiquette
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