Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage by Emily Post — 1940 Complete New Edition, Fourth Printing, Leather Binding

Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage became a touchstone for American social customs. This 1940 complete new edition, rewritten, revised, and reset, offers a wonderful period view of manners at home and in public—from introductions and correspondence to entertaining, weddings, dress, and table manners. The book is illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of social forms.

Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London. The copyright page lists the 1940 edition’s printings through the fourth printing, November 1941. This substantial volume contains 877 pages, including an index.

The book is handsomely bound in reddish-brown soft leather with elaborate gilt decoration to the covers and spine, marbled endpapers, and the gilt initials “M.E.J.” on the front cover showing provenance of a previous ownership.

Condition: The leather shows rubbing and wear, particularly at the top spine ends and front board top edge. The pages show some age-toning.

Size: 5 1/4” x 9”

A striking decorative binding around a classic work of twentieth-century American social history.