Fun to read for the foreign-ness of its mode of expression as much as some of the principles of etiquette propounded. Yet full of commonsense notions that apply equally today as back then as well. 12mo. 18.5 by 11.5 cm. vi, 168 pp. Quite uncommon in its original printing, as here. Condition: light sunning of the spine. A few minor dings of edges. Lightest of foxing in prelims. Mostly clean. View More...
Scarce -- on OCLC First Search only one copy found, at the NYPL, and this was a later edition. 16mo. 14 by 9 cm. 31, [1] pp. Containing a few simple diagrams illustrating appropriate movements. About 30 named dances listed on the last page index, including the jig, gavot, lancers, Caledonians, polkas, waltzes, the spring, leap and the hop. The final section gives the rules of etiquette and final remarks. Condition: green yellow cover has light film of soiling. A few closed tears on wrap edges. Moderate wear within. View More...
12mo. 16 by 10 cm. [4],160 pp. Five hand-colored plates, the frontis plate being a fold-out. This tongue-in-cheek primer on caddishness was at the time of this edition a popular parody of the eighteenth century manuals on manners and their versions of self-improvement tracts. The text still is a funny read, and might be particularly savored as one dips into other Georgian, or Regency, comedy of manners (Sheridan, Goldsmith, Austen, etc.). Readers of the day must have laughed aloud when they recognized in the various ironic tips the bad behavior of others, and perhaps uncomfortably, in the... View More...
