Australian Etiquette or the Rules and Usages of the Best Society in the Australasian Colonies, Together with Their Sports Pastimes, Games, and Amusements. Revised, illustrated, and compiled expressly as a household treasure for Australian homes.

Melbourne: People's Publishing Company, 1886. 1st ed., (revised), quarto, original boards professionally restored and recased with new leather spine with gold title and blindstamped decoration, new marbled endpapers, new endpapers. Colour presentation plate frontis, b&w illus, pp 643. Original front board worn, outside edge of text lightly marked, small piece missing edge of t.p. not affecting text, some edges lightly creased, staining lower fore-edge, scattered foxing. Very good condition.

Includes manners, introductions, etiquette of calls, conversation. dinner parties, balls, street etiquette, riding and driving, courtship, weddings, home life, women's higher education, letter writing, births, funerals, government etiquette, titles, business, dress, the language of flowers, horse-racing, hunting, kangaroo-hunting, coursing, athletics, cricket, football, rowing, indoor games. Item #100140

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