PRINCIPLES OF POLITENESS, AND OF KNOWING THE WORLD, BY THE LATE LORD CHESTERFIELD, METHODISED AND DIGESTED UNDER DISTINCT HEADS, WITH ADDITIONS, BY THE REVEREND DR. JOHN TRUSLE
1789 · New Have
by Trusler, Joh
New Have, 1789. 144pp. Original roan backed boards. Some wear and rubbing, but good. Chesterfield's advice was popular in the United States, first appearing in any form in 1775, and in this digested form in 1778. This is the New Haven edition, which hopefully educated some 18th-century Yalies. A sample: "Spitting on the carpet is a nasty practice, and shocking in a man of liberal education." SHIPTON & MOONEY 45451. (Inventory #: WRCAM14119)