The polite academy or, school of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies. Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in Masters and Misses. Containing, I. The Beauty and Advantages of a genteel Behaviour and agreeable Complaisance. II. Some Rules and Observations, for moral Behaviour in young Ladies; very necessary to be inculcated while at the Boarding-School, in order to be practised when they come from it. III. Directions for good Manners, agreeable Behaviour, and polite Address, on the most common Occasions in Life. IV. Some Directions for an easy genteel Carriage in Walking, Saluting, making a Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minuet. V. Some Observations on the real Use and Advantages of Dancing, by Mr. Lock and the Chevalier De Ramsay; with a few very necessary Instructions by an eminent Master. Illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved
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| Language: | English |
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London
printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row; and B. Collins, in Salisbury
1768, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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| Edition: | The fourth edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T118268. - P.[1] is on a verso. - Price from imprint: price 1 s. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The words "also to" in the drop-head title of the dedication have been cancelled |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xxxvii,143p.,plates) 12° |