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[Various Authors]. Correct Social Usage: A Course of Instruction in Good Form, Style, and Deportment by Eighteen Distinguished Authors (Complete in Two Volumes). New York: The New York Society of Self-Culture, 1907. Eighth Revised Edition, Illustrated. pp. 304; 305-608. Small 8vo’s., measuring 5.6″ x 8″. Lovely blind-stamped cloth, white lettering and illustration to the spines and front boards. Lovely pictorial pieces pasted to centre of both covers; illustrated endpapers. Photograph frontispieces accompanied with their original tissue-guards, gilt-decorated title pages. Replete with black-and-white plates throughout (all collated and accounted for). Lightest bumping to the spine ends else, near fine. Internally, the contents have been immaculately preserved with bright, clean, and unmarked pages. Near fine. Hardcover. Includes contributions from: Marquise Clara Lanza, Cynthia Westover Alden, Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Emma K. Lemcke, Wlater G. Robinson, Margaret W. Livingstone, Mrs. John A. Logan, Christine Terhune Herrick, Phebe A. Hanaford, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mlle. Lillie d’A. Bergh, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Mrs. Leon Harvier, Rev. C.W. de L. Nichols, Mrs. Donald McLean, Mrs. Dore Lyon, Margaret E. Sangster, Marion Harland. (#2290) $139.00
