The School of good manners
Subtitle: Containing, I. Sundry mixt precepts. II. Rules for childrens behaviour, at the meeting-house, at home, at the table, in company, in discourse, at school, and when abroad; with an admonition to children. III. Good advice for the ordering of their lives, with a baptismal covenant. IV. Some wholesome cautions. V. A short, plain, & scriptural catechism. VI. Principles of the Christian religion. VII. Eleven short exhortations. VIII. Good thought for little children, a compendious body of divinity, an alphabet of useful copies, & Cyprian's twelve absurdities, all in verse
Edition: The third edition, with additions.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 2699
Publisher: Printed & sold by T. Green ; Also sold by B. Eliot at Boston
Published: 1724
Place of publication: New-London [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Children; Conduct of life; Etiquette for children and teenagers
Notes: Compiled by Eleazer Moody, but substantially derived from an English work of the same title written by John Garretson. Cf. Welch.

Sometimes described as deriving from William Fiston's The schoole of good manners (London, 1609), which in turn is related to La civilité puerile (in L'A, B, C, ou instruction pour les petis enfans, Antwerp, 1564)

Signatures: A-E⁸.

Evans 2699

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 2403

Johnson, H.A. New London, 183

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 871.2