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Social Etiquette : The Art of Cookery and Hints on Carving

By: Anon

Price: £95.00

Publisher: London, Houlston and Sons N.d. [c. 1860's]: 1860

Book number: 60401

Condition: Very Good

80, 9-248, (8) pp. Publisher's blind-stamped & gilt decorated cloth. Small area of stain to rear board. Ink owner's name to front endpaper. Some leaves age-darkened. Eight-page publisher's adverts at rear. Clean copy. 1860's volume but with later adverts.
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The Etiquette of Love, Courtship, and Marriage : To Which is Added the Etiquette of Politeness

By: Anon

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Halifax, Milner and Sowerby 1866: 1866

Book number: 60721

Condition: Good

160 pp. Small format measuring 8cm x 12cm. Contemporary full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Boards rubbed. Some staining to leaves. Lacks one leaf, with loss of text. Small cut to edge of one leaf. Frontis and one other illustration. Binding firm.
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Etiquette for the Ladies : Eighty Maxims on Dress, Manners, and Accomplishments

By: Anon

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, Tilt and Bogue 1841: 1841

Book number: 60761

Condition: Very Good

Nineteenth edition. 63, 16 pp. Original blind and gilt-stamped cloth. Small format measuring 8.5cm x 12cm. Cloth clean. Internally clean. Title-page vignette. Adverts at rear. Lacks rear free endpaper. Binding firm.
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Etiquette For Ladies: A Guide to the Observances of Good Society

By: Anon

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited N.d. [c. 1930s]: 1930

Book number: 61290

Condition: Very Good

176 pp. Frey / brown cloth in dust wrapper. Dw slightly edgeworn & creased. Spotting to fore-edge. The front free endpaper has been removed. Cloth especially bright and fresh. Uncommon in dust jacket. VG/VG
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Successful Entertaining for the Modern Hostess

By: Barnes, Alison

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1963: 1963

Book number: 60513

Condition: Very Good

159 pp. Hardback in pictorial dust wrapper. Some spotting to extremities. No ownership marks.
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Modern Wedding Etiquette

By: Barnes, Alison

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Pearson 1961: 1961

Book number: 60727

Condition: Good

154 pp. Hardback in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edgeworn & stained. Ink owner's name to front endpaper. Internally clean.
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A Manual of Etiquette

By: Bickley, Nora M., editor

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1956: 1956

Book number: 60726

Condition: Very Good

208 pp. Hardback in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edgeworn & spotted. Internally clean.
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The Housewife's Reason Why Affording to The Manager of Household Affairs Intelligible Reasons for the Various Duties She Has to Perform Affording to The Manager of Household Affairs Intelligible Reasons for the Various Duties She Has to Perform

By: By the Author of "The Reason Why - General Science"

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Houlston & Wright (1857): 1857

Book number: 61074

Condition: Good

pp. 352. Blind stamped decorative boards with gilt lettering and motif. Large water stain and minor warping on rear board , some mottling to the cloth all over and very minor bumping to edges and corners, top edge uncut. Internally previous owner's bookplate and name written in pencil, otherwise clean tight and bright.
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Lady - This is Love!

By: De Mesquita, Bueno

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Cecil Palmer 1930: 1930

Book number: 61432

Condition: Very Good

95 pp. Original boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket edgeworn. Internally clean.
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Manners and Tone of Good Society

By: Dowdall, Mrs.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1926: 1926

Book number: 60204

Condition: Very Good

168 pp. Full cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Fading to spine. Boards clean. Internally clean. OCLC records just 3 UK copies: BL; Ox & NLS and 3 in the US.
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The Gentle Life, Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character

By: Friswell, J. Hain (James Hain)

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Son & Marston 1866: 1866

Book number: 5871

Condition: Very Good

312pp, top edge gilt, green/blue morocco tooled half leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt lettering and floral gilt decoration to the spine, bookplate to front endboard. Essays on the Conduct of Life.
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The Gentlewoman In Society. Victoria Library for Gentlewomen

By: Greville, Lady and edited by W. H. Davenport Adams

Price: £200.00

Publisher: London, Henry and Co. 1892: 1892

Book number: 49956

Condition: Very Good

vii, 271 pp. Bound in recent quarter red oasis morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering. New endpapers. Frontis portrait. Leaves slightly age-darkened. No ownership names. Chapters on Society and Its Amusements, Country-House Life, Gentlewomen and Their Little Follies, etc. Very Good condition internally in a fine binding. Copac records just the libraries of record plus LSE and the London Library
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Manners for Men

By: Humphry, Mrs.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Henrietta Street, London, James Bowden 1897: 1897

Book number: 60505

Condition: Very Good

160, (4) pp. Original pictorial cloth. Boards slightly marked. Internally clean. 'I suppose there was never yet a womanwho had not somwhere set up on a pedastal in her brain an ideal of manhood'... About two-thirds the width of an average 8vo. this is an attractive little book, with pretty decorative boards (man greeting a fan-carrying lady, with Toulouse-Lautrec style font). It is by Mrs Humphry, "Madge" of "Truth" (?), also the author of 'Manners for Women'. The first edition is not so common.
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Manners for Women

By: Humphry, Mrs.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Henrietta Street, London, James Bowden 1897: 1897

Book number: 60678

Condition: Good

156, (4) pp. Original pictorial cloth. Boards marked and spine darkened with some fraying to the head and tail. Internally a little toned and loose. 'Can anything in the world be nicer than a really nice girl? .... Someone has said that woman is one of Nature's most agreeable blunders'... About two-thirds the width of an average 8vo. this is an attractive little book, with pretty decorative boards (man in top hat doffing said hat to muff-carrying lady, with Toulouse-Lautrec style font). It is by Mrs Humphry, "Madge" of "Truth" (?), also the author of 'Manners for Men'. The fir...
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Manners for Men

By: Humphry, Mrs.

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Henrietta Street, London, James Bowden 1897: 1897

Book number: 61320

Condition: Very Good

160, (4) pp. Original pictorial cloth. Boards slightly marked. Internally clean. 'I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somwhere set up on a pedastal in her brain an ideal of manhood'... About two-thirds the width of an average 8vo. this is an attractive little book, with pretty decorative boards (man greeting a fan-carrying lady, with Toulouse-Lautrec style font). It is by Mrs Humphry, "Madge" of "Truth" (?), also the author of 'Manners for Women'. The first edition is not so common. Clean, but with a few spot marks to the front cover
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The Young Lady's Book of Advice and Instruction. Advice to Young Ladies on the Conduct of Life: With Friendly Hints How to Make Home Happy in the Married State [bound with] The Lady's Guide to Epistolary Correspondence: Original Letters Adapted to the Ordinary Occurences of Life. Two volumes in one

By: Maxwell, Mrs.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Glasgow and London, W. R. M'Phun 1859: 1859

Book number: 50198

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes in one. 127; 126, 32 pp. 12cm x 8cm. Dark red blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Boards slightly darkened. 32 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Binding firm. Copac lists only BL with both titles; NLS also have second work. Scarce. In VG condition.
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The Complete Guide to Wedding Etiquette

By: Page Ann

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited 1957: 1957

Book number: 60728

Condition: Very Good

160 pp. Hardback in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edgeworn & marked. Internally clean.
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Brush Up Your Manners

By: Pocock, Guy

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. 1939: 1939

Book number: 60707

Condition: Good

107 pp. Original pictorial cloth. Ink owner's name to front endpaper. Heavy spotting to endpapers. Cloth clean. With 27 drawings by Phil Ward.
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Wovon soll ich reden? Die Kunst der Unterhaltung

By: Von Franken, Constanze

Price: £48.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Levy & Muller N.d. [c. 1875]: 1875

Book number: 57140

Condition: Very Good

GERMAN TEXT 304, (12) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with colour pictorial panel to front board & gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to spine ends. Colour panel bright. Internally clean. Leaves slightly age-darkened. Adverts at rear. Text in German Fraktur.
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Beauty Through Hygiene : Common-Sense Ways to Health for Girls. The Woman's Home Library

By: Walker, Emma E. and edited by Arabella Kennedy

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co. 1905: 1905

Book number: 58012

Condition: Very Good

320 pp. Publisher's dark blue decorated cloth. Cloth clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Illustrations.
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