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London : Frederick Warne & Co., (1955). First Joan Storey edition. An endlessly reprinted Victorian guide to etiquette, which had reached its forty-eighth edition by 1929, but is here fully revised and updated by Joan Storey to take cognizance of the post-war world. With chapters on the hostess; introductions; accidental meetings; hand-shaking; invitations; cards; parties; luncheons; dinners; bridge and cocktail parties; garden parties; tennis; children’s parties; balls; engagements; weddings; christenings; anniversaries; mourning; present giving; special points of etiquette for men; travelling by air, and much else besides.
Crown 8vo (20cm). x,(198)pp. Original cloth; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket just lightly used and slightly spotted on flaps.

£20

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London : Universal Publications, [1936?]. First edition. A practical guide to both the legal formalities and the etiquette involved – from the death onwards, the funeral, the cremation, after the funeral, dealing with property, specimen letters, etc.
Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 90,[vi]pp. Original orange wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; a little rubbed, creased and split, but a reasonable copy. Contemporary ownership stamp of F. H. Brooker of Haslemere, 29 Allenby Road, Forest Hill.

£15

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