The rules of civility, or, Certain ways of deportment observed amongst all persons of quality upon several occasions.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Courtin, Antoine de, 1622-1685.

Contributor:

• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Nouveau traité de la civilité. English

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Etiquette--France--Early works to 1800.
• Manners and customs.
• Etiquette.
• France--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
• France.

Penn Provenance:

• Clark, Charles, 1806-1880 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
• Mason, Lennox S. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 300 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)

Edition:

Newly revised and much enlarged.

Other Title:

• Rules of civility
• Certain ways of deportment observed amongst all persons of quality upon several occasions
• Rules of civility: or, Certain ways of deportment observed in France among all persons of quality upon several occasions

Fingerprint:

ndh- otis i-e- nefr (3) 1678 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Martyn ... and John Starkey .., MDCLXXVIII [1678]

Notes:

• Translation of Nouveau traité de la civilité, by Antoine de Courtin. Cf. ESTC.
• Error in pagination: p. 199 misnumbered 198.
• Signatures: A⁶ B-N¹² O⁶.

Local Notes:

• Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: leaf A1 wanting.
• Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Charles Clark, of Totham Hall, dated 1841 or 1861 in ms., affixed to the front paste-down endpaper. His ownership statement takes the form of a poem, entitled "A pleader to the needer when a reader."

Cited in:

ESTC, R29728

OCLC:

11868246