Language: English
Published by Whittaker, Treacher & Co., London, 1831
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1831. 16mo. brown boards with black imprinting on covers and spine, 156 pp. Good; covers are quite soiled and worn, hinges cracked; contents only very lightly foxed. Please see scans. More than you could ever want to know about.well, the full title is: The Secretary's Assistant; exhibiting the various and most correct modes of Superscription, Commencement, and Conclusion of Letters to Person of every degree of Rank; including the Diplomatic, Clerical, and Judicial Dignitaries; with lists of Foreign Ambassadors and Counsels. Also the forms necessary to be used in Applications or Petitions to The King in Counsel, Houses of Lords & Commons, Government Offices & Public Companies, With A Table of Precedency, Abbreviations of the Several British & Foreign Orders of Knighthood By the Author of the Peerage & Baronetage Charts &c. I myself never knew there was anything like this amount of information on that subject. Someone did; they used this copy quite a bit. Very scarce, very early edition, possibly first. L-35n.