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The Etiquette of Politeness - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered.
A Victorian collection of good advice for those wishing to appear polite and well-bred at all times!
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Etiquette of English Puddings - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Traditional recipes for good old-fashioned puddings. Contains traditional recipes for favourites such as Bakewell Pudding, Treacle Pudding, Half-Pay Pudding - as well as 'Etiquette Notes' for serving!
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Etiquette of an English Tea - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Afternoon tea is the perfect way to entertain friends. This splendid custom slows the pace of life for a short time, so why not learn how to recreate a perfect afternoon tea with this pocket-sized guide.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for Coffee Lovers - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. The butler and another servant take the coffee to the ladies in the drawing room. The servant carries a tray with coffee cups, milk and sugar - and the butler follows with the coffee pot on a silver salver. Guests take cups into which they put cream and sugar, then they put their cups on the butler's salver and he pours coffee into them
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for Chocolate Lovers - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. A lady's diary entry for March 11th 1712 reads: "Wednesday, from 8-10, drank two dishes of chocolate in bed and fell asleep after them".
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for Gentlemen - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Contains everything a man needs to know. 'A gentleman should never permit the lady to pay for refreshments.'
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for the Well-Dressed Man - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. How to ruin a good coat:..take it off, drop it on a chair and sit on it. Go for the pockets - if they are small, fill them up; weigh them down and in a short space of time you will succeed in stretching your coat out of all shape.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Etiquette of Motoring - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Good manners for drivers. Introduction by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. 'To drive on one's own side of the highway is the first principle in the etiquette of the road 1907.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for the Chauffeur - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Duties and hints for chauffeurs. Introduction by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. 'It is not enough to be a good mechanic and know how to drive a car. A good chauffeur must also study their employer's wishes and carry them out.'
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Etiquette of Dress - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Read about 'corsets and the perils of tight lacing...' Travel back in time and learn how to be correctly dressed for all occasions. Correct underwear, the use of gloves, smart dressing for the business woman... and much more
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Etiquette of Love & Courtship - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Victorian rules for romance were strict. Young men and women had to tread carefully whenever they felt the 'flames of passion'. A great gift for a wedding shower
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for the Traveller - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. The days of steamer trunks and coach bags may be long gone, but this little pocket companion should accompany every voyager today
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Etiquette of Naming the Baby - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Choosing a name is a very special gift you give to your child. Name your baby after inventors, explorers, royalty and others with a place in history. A collection of traditional names used in Victorian times.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for Wine Lovers - Gift Book £3.99
The subtle art of choosing tasting and serving wines. Discover Shakespeare's favourite wine and read how to buy wisely, store safely, serve correctly and drink all wines with the greatest enjoyment.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Etiquette for the Children - Gift Book £3.99
Good manners, cultivated in childhood can make us happy and successful in life. This helpful guide, from 1901 offers advice for good habits in dress, in person, in speech and at the table.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Recipes for High Class Cooking - Gift Book £3.99
Good cooking creates a good impression. Easy to follow advice for distinguished food. Just add a damask cloth, polished glasses and glistening silverware!
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Recipes for Roses - Gift Book £3.99
Recipes for making pot pourri, pomanders, perfumes and sweet-smelling rose water. Scented bags to lay with linen, scented gloves - and an excellent water for the head and for sleep are contained here.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Recipes for Gardeners - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Valuable 'recipes' used on the garden over 100 years ago - the original organic gardening. Hints for today's gardener from yesteryear.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Recipes for an English Tea - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Afternoon Tea can be a time for reflection, gossip and scandal. Display your best china and entertain your friends using these traditional recipes - and you will be renowned for your refined hospitality.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Cheese & Wine - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Simple pleasures for those of refined taste. Good cheese and good wine, well chosen and properly served, complete even the most simple meal. Contains Butler's tips, advice, recipes and traditions.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Tea & Conversation - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Friends gather, tea is brewed and conversation flows. Everything tastes better with social niceties from days when afternoons were longer.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Tipples & Treats for the English Gentleman - Gift Book £3.99
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Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. This will remind you of the little book you found on your favourite uncle's bookshelf - the one all soft leather with finger marks. Team this affordable version with a good bottle of claret for a memorable gift.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Love is like a Mutton Chop - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Wry words of love 1840-1940
'They were in the parlour, just those three,
Him the parlour lamp - and she.
Two is company without a doubt,
And so the little lamp went out.'
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Gentle Art of Flirtation - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Old fashioned advice for flirts.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Never - Gift Book £3.99
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Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Never complain, Never explain, Never do anything eccentric. First published in 1907, these 'manners for the multitude' was Never meant to be taken seriously!
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Mother Holds you by the Heart - Gift Book £3.99
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Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. A mother holds you by the hand some of the time, and by the heart all of the time.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches TEMPORARILY OUT OF PRINT
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Grandma - Gift Book £3.99
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Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. A grandchild I love for company,Some tea, a cat and a book ...'
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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Mangles Mops & Feather Brushes - Gift Book £3.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Household hints. Spring cleaning, organising the laundry, dealing with those difficult gentlemen's shirts.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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A Garter Round the Bedpost - Gift Book £4.99
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Love charms. Young women like Jane Austen's heroines could have used charms like these in their search for a suitable husband. A beautiful wedding shower gift.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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The Duties of Servants - Gift Book £8.25
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. How much to pay your butler, duties and privileges of the cook - and many more rules for an efficient and well-run household!
Book Dimensions: 7 x 5 1/2 inches
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How to Entertain your Guests - Gift Book £8.25
Fine british pocket size gift books from the days when good manners mattered. Your party will go with a swing with these very best parlour games collected in 1911.
Book Dimensions: 7 x 5 1/2 inches
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Halving the Housework - advice for those who hate doing it £4.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
Clear muddle and clutter. Discover the pleasures of a clean, sparkling home - without becoming a drudge! Valuable advice from the 1950s.
Dimensions: 5 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches.
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The Servantless Household - how to cope £4.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
How to keep the house in order without the benefit of staff. Maintain high standards and be prepared for anything.
Dimensions: 5 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches.
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Dainty Dishes for slender incomes £4.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
Do not be constrained by your budget. Money-saving ideas, well-tried recipes and hints worth remembering.
Dimensions: 5 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches.
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Social Success - The modern girl’s guide (Hard Back) £8.25
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
Do you want to be popular?
At ease in all situations with an attractive personality?
Study this book and you will be rewarded by a feeling of poise and confidence and you are a ’Social Success’!
1930s etiquette for all occasions.
Dimensions: 7 x 5 ¼ inches.
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Kitchen Cosmetics - beauty from the pantry £4.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
How to have a smooth, clear complexion and other potions and preparations for natural beauty. Original ingredients from yesterday’s kitchens.
Dimensions: 5 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches.
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Appearances - how to keep them up on a limited income £4.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
Create a good impression with just £300, a cook and a parlourmaid. Train the cook well. How to shop. Plan a modest dinner-party.
Dimensions: 5 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches.
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Etiquette for the Bride £3.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
"In Victorian times, a bride of the leisured classes would have been considered badly equipped had she less than two dozen of all underwear in her provision".
Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches.
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English Lavender - Gift Book £3.99
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
For pleasure, lavender is surely the typical English perfume. Evocative of country gardens and days when life was lived at a slower pace.
Restore the spirits and calm the mind.
Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches.
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The Lady’s Dressing Room £8.25
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
How to get up fresh, beautiful and in an amiable frame of mind, with all your wrinkles smoothed over - and other fragrant tips from a golden age. 1892.
Dimensions: 7 x 5 ¼ inches.
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The Ladys Book of Manners £8.25
A pocket size gift book crammed full of helpful hints & advise the perfect present.
How to become a perfect lady;
How to talk correctly;
Polite and accurate conversation;
Common errors corrected;
How to read.
Dimensions: 7 x 5 ¼ inches.
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How To Make Love by Hugh Morris £1.95
The secret of wooing & winning the one you love! 32 pages 186mm x 120mm
Free UK Delivery
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The Art of Kissing by Hugh Morris £1.95
Helpful advise to lovers taken from the 1930's!
Different Kinds of Kisses, Approved Methods of Kissing & even How to KIss Girls with Different Sizes of Mouths!
Free UK Delivery
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Dont's For Gardeners £4.50
The latest addition to the ever popular range of Copper Beech Gift Books - Don'ts for Gardeners.
Witty and useful advice in a series of ’Don’ts’.
Don’t be satisfied with directing. Dig, delve and plant yourself - health and pure enjoyment follow.
Book Dimensions: 5 ¾ x 4¼ inches
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