[Peel, Mrs C S]

Waiting at Table: a practical guide

London, UK [ca.1910]: Frederick Warne & Co.
Second-hand hardcover

[Peel, Mrs C S]. Waiting at Table: a practical guide. Frederick Warne & Co: London, [ca.1910]. 8vo (190x125mm) green cloth, brown decorated & lettered, viii,115,[1]pp. VG/- bds lightly flecked; no dj; light shelfwear.

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[A MEMBER OF THE ARISTOCRACY].

Waiting at Table: a practical guide - by the author of Manners and Rules of Good Society.

London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co, undated, circa 1910. Reprint of 1894 edition. Printed by William Clowes, London and Beccles. 

Octavo (190x125mm) original publishers olive green cloth, black stamped, decorated & lettered, viii,115,[1]pp. Booksellers Ticket to front pastedown "Dymock's Book Arcade 428 George St., Sydney"; lacks dust jacket; boards lightly flecked; light shelfwear; endpapers faintly offset toned.

A comprehensive guide for household servants waiting at table for every social occasion during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, including breakfasts, afternoon teas, suppers, balls, wedding luncheons and receptions, garden parties and hunt breakfasts.  Instructions are provided for parlour maids, butlers, footmen and man-servants.

A nice copy.

§  Earlier edition widely held, this edition not recorded.
§  Attar 429.1

Item #9638

Price: $75.00 AUD