Our Manners and Social Customs, A Practical Guide to Deportment, Easy Manners, and Social Etiquette

Dale, Daphne

Published by Elliott & Beezley, Chicago and Philadelphia, 1891

About this Item

Original publisher's decorative cloth boards with gilt-stamped and embossed cover illustration. Boards show edge wear, rubbing, and surface scuffing consistent with age. Spine shaken with cracking at the inner hinges; binding fragile. Several pages are loose but present. Text block complete with all pages accounted for; pagination begins at page 9, as issued. Pages toned with age, with small edge chips and short tears near the gutter, particularly at the front. Illustrated throughout with clean, well-impressed Victorian engravings. No modern repairs noted.

Illustrated Victorian etiquette manual offering a primary-source view of late-nineteenth-century social customs, courtship, and domestic life.

Seller Inventory # EB035

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Manners and Social Customs, A Practical Guide to Deportment, Easy Manners, and Social Etiquette
• Publisher: Elliott & Beezley, Chicago and Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1891
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: uncredited
• Edition: Illustrated Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 6.5W x 8.5H x 0D inches 6.5 inches width by 8.5 inches height by 0 inches depth
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Victorian Social History & Etiquette
  • History - Social History