Manners and social usages
By: by Mrs. John Sherwood ...
Edition: New and enl. ed., rev. by the author.
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1887
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Etiquette
Description: Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century. Sherwood's book is an exceptional source for etiquette as it was practiced in the late 1880s. Additionally, of the book's fifty-nine chapters, two are devoted to dancing and balls.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text.