Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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 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 ; illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved.

Accession number
PML 88261
Published
London : Printed for R. Baldwin, in Paster-noster-Row ; and B.C. Collins, in Salisbury, 1786.
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Frontispiece and 11 engraved plates signed: "Cannot sculp."
Includes: "Beauty and the beast, an entertaining moral tale, from the French"--pp. 69-100.
Also includes a selection from the "Toy shop" published by Mr. Dodsley--pp. 101-110.
Description
xxxvii, 143 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Dutch gilt floral paper boards. In gray cloth box by Julia P. Wightman.
Classification
Department