[BARBIN (Claude)], publisher:

Le Boufon de la Cour, ou Remede preservatif contre le Melancolie.

A Paris, Chez Claude Barbin..., [1690]. 12mo, pp. [3] - 235 [236 - 239 Index, 240 blank], B1 cancelled, contemporary vellum; ?lacks half-title. RLIN describes a copy with the same imprint with an engraved half-title with p. 46 incorrectly numbered 49; there is blank leaf before the title-page in the above copy, but p. 46 is correctly numbered. The copy in RLIN also does not give pages for the Index but stops at p. 235.

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Book number: 3688

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners translation prose French

CASTIGLIONE (Baldassarre):

Comitis Libri IV. De Curiali sive Aulico ex Italico Sermone in Latinum conversi Interprete Bartholomaeo Clerke. Recnesuit Samuel Drake.

Cantabrigiae, Typis Academicis: Inpensis Guilielmi Innys...., 1713. 8vo, 176 x 106, pp. [xxxvi], 297 [298 - 303 Index, 304 - 310 blank], contemporary panelled calf; rear cover slightly defective but a very good copy. "The Book of the Courtier" is the usual translation of Libro del Cortigiano, published by Castiglione (1478 - 1529) published in 1528 but many years in the composition. The first version in English was by Thomas Hoby in 1561, and the work was widely reprinted in numbers translations and in the original Italian for two or three centuries. Bartholomew Clerke (1537 - 1590) translated the work into Latin in 1572, with three subsequent editions published in 1585, 1593, and 1603. Clerke is identified on the title-page in a contemporary hand, as "Coll. Regalis olim Socio"; in his career, he was scholar and fellow of King's College, Cambridge and a proctor of the university. Drake (1687/8 - 1753) edited the Latin translation while he was a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.

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Book number: 9068

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners translation

CLARKE (Francis L.):

Letters on Picturesque and Moral Geography; Illustrative of Landscape and Manners in the Various Countries of Europe. Chiefly designed for the Higher Classes in Schools, and for Minor Students in Literature.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, and Co...., 1825. 12mo, 178 x 98 mms., pp. xii, 336 engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, marbled boards; title-page slightly foxed, front cover detached. Clarke attributes to himself the bright idea of producing an anthology of "A great portion of the most useful and interesting observations of the most intelligent travellers, on the various countries and people, of the Continent and our own islands,,,, He has thus been enable to embody in a small space, whatever there of interesting or instructive, respecting the landscape and manners of Europe; a mass of intelligence no other single work contains..." This appears to be a re-issue of the first edition of 1810, Printed for Charles Law, by J. D. Dewick, with a new title-page. Copac locates two copies of that edition, BL and National Library of Wales. No copies traced in North America.

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Book number: 6903

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[GILES (William)]:

The Guide to Domestic Happiness. The Second American, from the Fifth London Edition. [AND]: The Refuge. The Seventh Edition.

New-Haven [Connecticut], From Sidney's Press, for Increase Cooke & CO., 1807. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 154; 168, engraved frontispiece for each work, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine, morocco label; text a little browned, front joint rubbed. Giles published his Guide to Domestic Happiness in 1776 and The Refuge in 1772; both works were immensely popular both in Britain and America.

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Book number: 3481

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners education

[HAYLEY (William):

A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend to the Sisterhood.

London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1785. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo, 178 x 110 mms. pp. [iii] - xix [xx blank], 261 [262 blank]; [ii], 250; [ii], 255 [256 blank], attractively bound in full contemporary calf, ornate gilt borders on covers, neatly rebaccked with spine richly and ornately gilt in compartments, black leather labels laid down, marbled edges and end-papers; lacks half-titles, some very slight flaws to binding but a very good to near fine set. John Johnson, the editor of Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley (1823), records that "Never was a book projected and written with more guileless or more benevolent intentions, yet a host of prudes and hypocrites railed against it, as immoral and irreligious.... Conscious of his pure intentions in composing the essay, he only smiled at the mistake of those rigid ladies who reviled the production as indecent and irreligious; and he exulted in the warm applause of several most accomplished and candid members of the sisterhood, who regarded and extolled it as an elegant and moral performance, that truly deserved, not the censure, but the thanks and the esteem of their society." In their article on William Hayley (1745-1820), the Oxford DNB notes that among his anonymously published works was his "Essay on Old Maids (3 vols., 1785) -- which, although deemed 'indelicate' (Bishop, 90) and affronting many, sold well". The DNB is silent on the connection between William Hayley and the dedicatee of this three-volume treatise: the pioneering woman poet and classical scholar Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), who, unmarried and, at this time, 68 years of age, was herself in the category under discussion.

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Book number: 10255

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Keywords: manners morality prose women

MARTINELLI (Vincenzio):

Istoria Critica della Vita Civile.

Londra: Per Giogrio Woodfall..., 1752. FIRST EDITION. 4to, 294 x 231 mms., pp. 12, 311 [312 blank], 19th century half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked at some stage, title in gilt on spine. With the "Milton,/ Peterborough" book label on the top margin of the front paste-down end-paper. The subscribers include Mark Akenside, Earl of Chesterfield, Moses Mendez and two other members of his family, the dedicatee Charles Townshend, and Horace Walpole. Martinelli (1702 - 1785) came to England in 1748 and this was the first of three books that he published in England, and, as E. H. Thorne records, "made his reputation as a man of letters, and was reprinted several times both in England and in Italy. It consists of nineteen chapters each dealing with one aspect of la vita civile; aspects ranging from education and the duties of family life, through industry, art, and science, laws and methods of government, to la vita felice, and it ends - inevitably for a foreigner in eighteenth-century England - with a chapter 'della liberta.'" Among the good and the great that he met was Charles Burney, whose daughter, Fanny, recorded in 1771, "He has a most uncommon flow of wit, and with it the utmost bitterness of satire and raillery of ill nature. His vanity and self-conceit exceed every person's I ever saw; and far from endeavouring to conceal this weakness, he glories in it, and thinks he but does himself justice in esteeming himself the head of whatever company he is in, and (openly) manifesting that he does so. He is not satisfied with priding himself that he speaks to the Great with sincerity, he piques himself upon treating them with rudeness." E. H. Thorne, "Vincenzo Martinelli in England: 1748 - 1744," Italian Studies (1956). ESTC T83326 locates 15 copies in these islands, Niedersachsische Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek - Gottingen and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in Europe; and Folger, Chicago, Texas, and Yale in north America. OCLC adds NYPL, Oklahoma,

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Book number: 7634

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners morality prose

NELSON (James):

An Essay on the Government of Children, Under Three General Heads, Viz. Health, Manners, and Education. The Third Edition.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...And Sold by J. Hinxman..., 1763. 12mo,164 x 95, pp. [viii]. iii - vii [viii blank], 9 - 373 [374 blank, 375 Errata, 376 blank], contemporary sheepskin; joints slightly cracked, tops and base of spine slightly chipped, spine very slightly creased; a slightly cheap copy. The author and apothecary, James Nelson (1710–1794), published this work in 1753, and it was immediately popular. A second edition followed in 1756, and the present "third edition" is in fact a reissue of the second edition, 1756, with a new title-page.

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Book number: 10126

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners education prose

[THE YOUNG LADY'S POCKET LIBRARY ([THE)]: GREGORY (John):

A Father's Legacy to his Daughters. By the late Dr. Gregory, of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, and J. & J. Robinson, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms., pp. [ii], vi, 46. AND: An Unfortunate Mother's Advice, to Her Daughters, in a Letter to Miss Pennington. By the Late Lady Pennington. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, and J. & J. Robinson, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms., pp. 63 [64 blank]. AND: Advice of a Mother to her Daughter. Bt the Marchioness de Lambert. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, and J. & J. Robinson, 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms. pp. 48 (misbound, with title-page following first leaf of text]. AND: Fables for the Female Sex. By Edwrd Moore. Edinburgh: Printed by David Ramsay; for A. Guthried, no. 25, South Bridge Street, 1792, 12mo (in 6s), 146 x 85 mms., pp. [iv[, iv, 887 [88 blank], with separate pagination but continuous collation, bound in contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; lacking the general title-page, binding slightly worn, front joint slightly cracked. With the 1810 ownership inscription of "Susan Holdich/ Don d'Ame" on the recto of the first leaf.

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Book number: 10422

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners behaviour prose Scottish Enlightenment women

WILKES (Wetenhall):

A Letter, of Genteel and Moral Advice to a Young Lady: Being A System of Rules and Information; digested into a new and familiar Method, to qualify the FAIR SEX to be useful, and happy in every Scene of Life. The Sixth Edition, carefully Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged by the Author.

London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, at the Red-Lion in Pater-noster ARow. MDCCLII 1766. 12mo, 162 x 89 mms., pp. [vi], 198, contemporary calf, gilt rules on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine; lacks label, slight wear to extremities, but a good to very good copy with the calligraphic inscription of "John Alfred Bach" and the autograph "Cathe. Barnwell" on the recto of the front free end-paper. The first edition of this work was published in Dublin in 1740, and the eighth edition was the last to be published in the 18th century. Wilkes died in 1751, so the sixth (1753), seventh (1760), and eighth editions are remarkable in having been "revised, corrected, and enlarged" by a man in his grave. In fact, this edition reprints the Preface to the fourth edition (1746), the first which Wetenhall revised. One learns, not surprisingly, that chastity is a young lady's greatest virtue: "Chastity is a suppression of all irregular desires, voluntary pollutions, sinful concupiscence, and of an immoderate use of sensual, or carnal pleasures." Perhaps some young lady wondered what regular desires, involuntary pollutions, sinless concupiscences, and moderate use of sensual or carnal pleasures would be. As I recall, Wilkes's work was one of the books Mary Bennet in Price and Prejudice was advised to read. See also online, 19th Century Feminist Responses to "A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice." ESTC locates copies of this edition in BL and Dublin City libraries in these islands; and Virginia, Rutgers, and Arizona in North America.

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Book number: 10441

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WOODWARD (Josiah):

An Account of the Progress of the Reformation of Manners, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, And other Parts of Europe and America. With some Reasons and plain Directions for our hearty and vigorous Prosecution of this Glorious Work. In a Letter to a Friend. To which is added, The Special Obligations of Magistrates, to be diligent in the Execution of the Penal Law against Prophaneness and Debauchery, for the effecting of National Reformation. The Twelfth Edition with considerabel Additions.

London, Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing..., 1704 4to, 195 x 152 mms., pp. [viii] 7 - 63 [64 adverts], engraved frontispiece, recent full calf, gilt spine, A loosely inserted typed note kindicateds that the frontispiece and title-page have been, and that many other restorations of the work have been, and that the binding is recent. It is a very clean and good copy. Woodward (1657–1712) was, as John Spurr writes in his Oxford DNB entry, "an effective publicist and prolific author in the cause of moral reformation. On 28 December 1696 he preached one of the earliest surviving sermons before the Society for the Reformation of Manners, and he was to be its first historian. He published An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Religious Societies in the City of London, which survives appended to his collection of sermons An earnest admonition to all, but especially to young persons (1697), as well as in a 'second enlarged edition' of 1698. This was followed by the similarly themed An Account of the Societies for the Reformation of Manners (1699)."

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Book number: 10417

Catalogue: Manners

Keywords: manners behaviour prose