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Brian Lake Janet Nassau CONDUCT, ETIQUETTE, &c - A PART I: CONDUCT, ETIQUETTE from the housekeeper to the servant & DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT of all work ... with useful receipts and Encompassing all aspects of tables. FIRST EDITION. Knight & self-improvement, 1671-1937. Lacey. Illus. Later e.ps. Contemp. half plain sheep; a little rubbed. Contemp. signature of Mary Wilson on preface. 1. A Father’s Advice to a Son in a A., B. ¶A substantial work in 430, + Letter. Manchester: John Heywood. In 72pp. Written, with advice and hand marbled paper wrappers. 16pp. contributions from an anonymous ¶The letter is signed B.A. mistress, by servants with fifty years [1872] £15 experience in different families. ‘The supreme Lord, has, in his wisdom, rendered the various conditions of ABBOTT, John Stevens Cabot mankind necessary to our individual happiness: - some are rich, others 2. The Mother at Home; or, The poor - some are masters, and others principles of maternal duty familiarly servants. - Subordination, indeed, attaches to your rank in life, but not illustrated. Revised and corrected by disgrace. All men are servants in Daniel Walton. 2nd edn. John Mason. different degrees.’ The dedication Additional engr. title (18340, 12pp outlines the formation of households cata.; text foxed. Orig. green cloth, sl. according to their income; where browned paper label; a little rubbed a widow or unmarried lady with & dulled. Evidence of label removal £100 income would employ a single from e.ps. maid servant on 5 to 10 Guineas a year, a household with £4000 ¶First published in 1830. to £5000 income would consist of Responsibility, maternal authority, approximately 11 female and 13 male the mother’s difficulties, faults and servants paid between 7 (the nursery- errors, and religious instruction. maid) and 80 (a French man-cook) 1835 £45 Guineas. With advice to all domestic servants, with a comprehensive 3. The Mother at Home; ... Revised. RTS. and practical index including travel fares, advice on language and Orig. brown binders’ cloth; sl. marked. spelling, multiplication, weights and Contemp. signature on leading measures, &c. pastedown. v.g. 1825 £125 [c.1855] £35 7. ADVICE. Advice to Working People. 4. The Mother at Home. 16mo. Halifax: 16mo. Leith: printed by William Reid. Milner & Sowerby. Front. with sm. Folded as issued, one ink mark. 8pp. marginal tear. Orig. blue cloth. a.e.g. ¶Not on Copac. A tract containing Contemp. inscription on leading practical advice with moral overtones. f.e.p. v.g. Avoid living in damp houses; ‘If you cannot help taking a low house, ¶Attributed to Jacob Abbott on titlepage be attentive to have all the windows but actually a slightly revised text of put in good repair ... if possible, get it John Stevens Cabot Abbott’s work. whitewashed ... Always see that your 1858 £30 children are washed and hair combed _____ before you send them to school ... Take a regular proportion of your weekly earnings to the Savings Bank ...’ CULTURE & DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND 1822 £125 5. ABERCROMBIE, John. The Culture and Discipline of the Mind. Addressed AIKIN, John to the Young. 7th edn. Edinburgh: ARTS OF LIFE William Whyte & Co. Some foxing and 8. The Arts of Life: I. Of providing food, watermarking. Orig. pink cloth; spine II. Of providing cloathing, III. Of faded to brown. 59pp. providing shelter; described in a series 1837 £35 of letters. For the instruction of young persons: by the author of Evenings at COMPLETE SERVANT Home. 2nd edn. 12mo. J. Johnson. 6. ADAMS, Samuel & Sarah. The 8pp ads. Orig. half green vellum, Complete Servant; being a practical paper label, marbled boards. v.g. guide to the peculiar duties and ¶First published in 1802. business of all descriptions of servants, 1807 £120 6 8 12 14 CONDUCT, ETIQUETTE, &c - Aikin AIKIN, John continued UPON POLITENESS 12. ANCOURT, Abbé d’. The Lady’s 9. Letters from a Father to His Son, on Preceptor. Or, A letter to a young lady various topics, relative to literature of distinction upon politeness. Taken and the conduct of life. Written in from the French of the Abbé d’Ancourt, the years 1792 and 1793. The second and adapted to the religion, customs, edition. Printed for J. Johnson, St. and manners of the English nation by a Paul’s Church-yard. xii, 348pp. 8vo. gentleman of Cambridge. The second Titlepage sl. dusted, otherwise a nice edition, with alterations and additions. clean copy. Contemp. or sl. later half Printed for J. Watts: and sold by B. Dod. scarlet calf, armorial gilt stamp of the [viii], 72pp. 8vo. Title in red & black. Forbes family at head of spine; a little Contemp. full calf, double ruled gilt rubbed, corners sl. bumped. Armorial borders; hinges cracked but remaining bookplate of Castle Forbes Library. firm; a little rubbed with sl. loss to ¶ESTC T84689. Letters by Aikin, foot of spine. Contemp. ownership the dissenting physician & author, signature of Henry Streatfeild on title addressed to his eldest son, Arthur. On Education, Strength of character, & with Streatfield family armorial Attachment to the ancients, Nature & bookplate on leading pastedown. art and the love of novelty, on prejudice, ¶ESTC T119924, BL only in British bigotry, candour & liberality, Religious Isles; 5 copies only in North America. societies, ornamental gardening, Published in the same year as the first spleen & low spirits, Prevalence edition. A series of short pieces on of truth, Poetical translation, On conduct addressed to a young lady of ruins, Spectral appearances, Cheap distinction. ‘Politeness, Madam’, the pleasures, Attachment to country, author begins, ‘is an Accomplishment On independence, Choice of a wife, of so singular a nature, that the less &c. The Forbes family of Alford, People have it the more they generally Aberdeenshire, have been resident at think they have it ... Though virtue their Vale of Alford estate for over 600 and Merit are not always in the years. The present family home, Castle Retinue of the Great, yet a Delicacy Forbes, was built in 1815. of Behaviour and Purity of Manners 1794 £125 generally dwell more with them, than with those of a lower Class in Life, and 10. Letters from a Father to His Son, ... therefor from such we ought to take our Models for Imitation ... you know The third edition. WITH: Vol. II, that the Pomps and Gaieties of Life 1800. J. Johnson. xii, 348pp; viii, 341, often prove Obstacles to the Duties of [1]pp; final ad. leaf. 8vo. Uncut in it, and we may say of True Politeness, orig. blue drab boards, cream paper that, Tho’ sought by all, to few the Gem spines, neatly rebacked but with ink is known; Most for the Brilliant, wear the vol. nos on spines reversed. Contemp. Bristol Stone’. signature of John Allsopp on leading 1743 £750 f.e.p., vol. I. v.g. ¶ESTC T84691 & T84692. Volume II 13. ANDREWS, Alexander. The is letters written in the years 1798 and Eighteenth Century; or, Illustrations 1799. Letters by Aikin, the dissenting physician & author, addressed to his of the manners and customs of our eldest son, Arthur. grandfathers. FIRST EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Half title. Pencil 1796 £150 notes on following pastedown. Orig. _____ brown cloth by Burn & Co.; spine sl. AMERICAN RECEIPTS rubbed at head. ¶Fashion, costume, marriages & 11. AMERICAN . The American Family funerals, servants, gambling, duelling, Receipt Book: consisting of several coffee houses, etc. thousand most valuable receipts, experiments, &c. &c. Collected from 1856 £50 various parts of Europe, America, and other portions of the globe. 16mo. 14. ANDREWS, Alexander. The (Halifax: Milner & Sowerby) Re-printed Eighteenth Century; ... FIRST from the American edition. A few ink EDITION. Chapman & Hall. Half title. notes. Orig. brown cloth; a little marked. Orig. green cloth, spine dec. in gilt. ¶The second English edition; first Signature of Lord Carlingford, 1878, published in 1854. Receipts medical, on half title. v.g. culinary & for household use. ¶An attractive remainder binding. 1856 £60 1856 £60 CONDUCT, ETIQUETTE, &c - Aristocracy ARISTOCRACY, A Member of WAITING AT TABLE 21. Waiting at Table: a practical guide.