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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 ...

Title
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 ... / illustrated with twelve copper plate cuts, beautifully engraved.
Publication
London : Printed for Darton and Harvey, B. Crosby, and B.C. Collins ; Salisbury : by B.C. Collins, [1800?]

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Additional Authors
  • Crosby, B. (Benjamin)
  • Collins, B. C. (Benjamin Charles), 1758-1808.
  • Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.
  • Darton & Harvey (London, England) bsl
  • Children's Room Collection
Description
143, [1], 111-145, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates, incl. frontispiece : ill.; 13 cm.
Uniform Title
Beauty and the beast.
Alternative Title
  • Polite academy
  • School of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies
Subjects
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature – Great Britain – 1800.
Note
  • Originally published 1758, cf. Realms of childhood, 64.
  • Undated. Date from British Library Catalog.
  • Signatures: A-P⁶ (leaf F5 is wanting).
  • Includes "Beauty and the beast" (p. 100-127); "Some amusement for our little readers" (p. [129]-143), an excerpt from Dodsley's The toy shop; and Of complaisance and politeness (p. 111-145, second sequence).
  • "Collins, printer, Sarum."--Colophon.
  • Continuation of title page: 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 courtesy, bow, and dancing the minuet -- V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing, by Mr. Locke and the Chevalier De Ramsay; with a few very necessary instructions by an eminent master.
Indexed In (note)
  • Osborne catalogue
Binding (note)
  • Bound in multi-colored diamond patterned paste paper boards.
Call Number
*KH 1800 Polite 11-11
OCLC
63064409
Title
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 ... / illustrated with twelve copper plate cuts, beautifully engraved.
Imprint
London : Printed for Darton and Harvey, B. Crosby, and B.C. Collins ; Salisbury : by B.C. Collins, [1800?]
Edition
The 10th ed.
Indexed In:
Osborne catalogue, II:732-33
Binding
Bound in multi-colored diamond patterned paste paper boards. NN
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Added Author
Crosby, B. (Benjamin) Bookseller
Collins, B. C. (Benjamin Charles), 1758-1808. Printer
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764. Toy-shop.
Darton & Harvey (London, England) Bookseller
Children's Room Collection.
Added Title
Beauty and the beast.
Research Call Number
*KH 1800 Polite 11-11
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