Hints on Etiqette: A Shield Against the Vulgar

A book of dining, flirting, dancing and smoking, celebrating the 175th anniversary of The London Library.


With nineteenth-century fashions constantly changing, but the importance of the baffling social codes entirely rigid, a newly-prosperous and bewildered middle class was in dire need of careful guidance and advice. With the help of his mysterious lady friend, Charles William Day has a kind-hearted mission: "If these 'hints' save the blush upon one cheek, or smooth the path into 'so…