Americana from Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers

FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 12mo, pp. 144, 18 'Catalogue' (final page misbound after p. 144) original brown cloth, rebacked with new endpapers, the upper cover with the title enclosing an image of a 'gentleman'. Unrecorded first British edition of this etiquette book, whose subtitle could have been 'on getting ahead in society.' The anonymous American author gives in six chapters, on Character,… Read more about this item