Courtesy & Manners.- [Courtin (Antoine de)] Nouveau Traité de la Civilité qui se pratique en France, parmi les honnestes gens, first edition, half-title, title with engraved vignette of flying angel, woodcut decorations and initials, errata leaf at end, lightly browned, contemporary ink initials "MA" at head of title and signature of Mary Anderson to front free endpaper, engraved bookplate of Sir Charles Anderson Bart. Lea Library, contemporary mottled calf rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt spine, 12mo, Paris, Helie Iosset, 1671. ⁂ Manual of good manners, conversation and civility with directions for the correct way of serving and eating food, offering and accepting wine, behaviour at balls and games of chance, letter-writing including the importance of paper size and other such matters. And, importantly, a man should never tell a lady who is endeavouring to appear young that he has known her for a long time.
Courtesy & Manners.- [Courtin (Antoine de)] Nouveau Traité de la Civilité qui se pratique en France, parmi les honnestes gens, first edition, half-title, title with engraved vignette of flying angel, woodcut decorations and initials, errata leaf at end, lightly browned, contemporary ink initials "MA" at head of title and signature of Mary Anderson to front free endpaper, engraved bookplate of Sir Charles Anderson Bart. Lea Library, contemporary mottled calf rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt spine, 12mo, Paris, Helie Iosset, 1671. ⁂ Manual of good manners, conversation and civility with directions for the correct way of serving and eating food, offering and accepting wine, behaviour at balls and games of chance, letter-writing including the importance of paper size and other such matters. And, importantly, a man should never tell a lady who is endeavouring to appear young that he has known her for a long time.
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