Habits of good society

By HABITS

• 1970.1 The habits of good society: a handbook of etiquette for ladies and gentlemen. With thoughts, hints and anecdotes concerning social observances; nice points of taste and good manners; and the art of making one's-self agreeable. The whole interspersed with humorous illustrations of social predicaments; remarks on the history and changes of fashion; and the differences of English and Continental etiquette.
  [1859]
  17.0 x 11.0 cm   Pp [1-5] 6-17 [18] 19-378, [i-iv] publ ads   frontis engr
  GB:   LB   *OB  
  US:   DCL  
  

  Date from BMCat.@Binding: brown cloth, gilt.@ There are two prefaces, the first by "The man in the club window', the second by "A matron' which is entitled "The lady's preface'. The frontispiece engraving is entitled "The man in the club window'.

• 1970.2 — [Another edition, 1877]
  US:   MCR  
  

  The MCR catalogue lists an edition with the short title "The habits of good society; a handbook for ladies and gentlemen...' as published New York: Carleton; London: Low 1877.

• 1970.3 — [Title as [1859] Another edition]
  16.5 x 11.0 cm   Pp [1-5] 6-17 [18] 19-378, [i-iv] ads   frontis engr
  GB:   *OPo(F)  
  

• 1970.4 — [Title as [1859]] A new edition.
  17.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [1-5] 6-10 [11] 12-16 [17-19] 20-378, [i-iv] [1-2] 3-32 publ ads  
  GB:   *LB  
  US:   DCL  
  

  Date from BMCat.