THE POLITE ACADEMY; or, School of Behaviour for Young Gentlemen…

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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition. < >
  • Another image of 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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition.
  • Another image of 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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition.
  • Another image of 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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition.
  • Another image of 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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition.
  • Another image of 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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition.

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. 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 Curtesy, Bow, and dancing the Minnet. 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. Illustrated with twelve Copper Plates Cuts, beautifully engraved. The Fifth Edition.

London: R. Baldwin.... B. Collins, 1771. xxxvii+143 pages. Original Dutch flower boards. 117 x 83 mm. Re-backed in vellum with paper title label. Lacking one leaf of text: pages 46/7; else a very good copy of this popular courtesy manual first published in 1758. The title, contained the first publication in English of Beauty and the Beast. Scarce. Osborne 732. 3rd and 10th editions. Oppenheimer 2062/3, 1st and 3rd editions.

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