The Bazar Book Of Decorum: The Care Of The Person, Manners, Etiquette, And Ceremonials (First Edition) -

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1870). 

Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 
278 pages + ads.
6 1/2" x 4 3/4"

Good. Tight binding; contemporary owner's name and inscription; clean pages; ring on cover; moderate wear.

Nice antique volume of etiquette and deportment, touching on hair, ears, hand and nails, the form, posture, eyes, speech, handshaking, hospitality, table manners, and much more. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I.
Ceremonial Observances founded on Common Sense. - The
peculiar Necessity for Americans to cultivate Politeness. -
Advantage of Politeness.-Duke of Marlborough.

CHAPTER II.
The Obligation to cultivate Beauty.-Notions of Beauty:-
Beauty and Health.-- American Looks. Their good and
bad Qualities.-How to improve the Bad and preserve
the Good.-The Skin..

CHAPTER III.
Relation of Dress to Form.-The Hair.-Dyes.-Grayness.
Hair-cutting.-Its Effect.-- The Nose.- The Eye.-
Squinting: -Short-sightedness.-Eyebrows and Eyelash-
es. - The morbid Phase of Fashion. - Dark-rimmed
Eyes.

CHAPTER IV.
The Ear.--How to make it beautiful.-Ear-wax.-Ear-
pulling.-The Mouth.-Its Beauty and Ugliness. The
Proud Muscle.-The Tongue.--Tongue - scraping.--The
Teeth.-Proper Management.--Use of Tobacco.

CHAPTER V.
The Hand. ---Its Beauty and Utility.--Ilow to beautify the
Hand.-Care of the Nails.-Hang-nails.-Snapping of the
Fingers.-- Dangers of the Practice. -Warts. ---Sweating
of the Hands. - The Foot. -The proper Form of the Shoe.
_The Defects of the fashionable Shoe.----Corns.--Bun-
ions.- Ingrowth of the Nail.-A terrific Operation.---
Sweating of the Feet...

CHAPTER VI.
The Power of Expression and Action.-Freedom and Grace.
-A Talleyrand and a Rustic Antinous.-Lord Chester-
field's awkward Man.-Too much Interference. A whole-
some Neglect.--Ugly Tricks of Expression and Gesture.
-A wriggling Nose.-The Success of ugly Men.- Sub-
mission to the Laws of Nature. -A modern Beauty con-
fronted with the Venus of Milo.-Excessive Fatness and
Thinness.-How to be Cured.-Deformities the Result of
bad Management in Childhood.-Dancing. - Proper Ex-
ercise.- Mind and Body.-Freedom from Restraint.

CHAPTER VII.
American Ease. ---Propriety of Posture.- A well-bred Person
not Demonstrative.-Fuss.-Its Discomforts and Indeco-
rousness. - The Free and Easy.-The Prim.-Fault of the
American Walk. --Inelegant Attitudes and Gestures.

CHAPTER VIII.
The Expression. How far Involuntary.- Laughter. ---Its
Propriety. ---Its Advantages. - Blushing. - Shamefaced-
ness.-Hawthorne in Company. -Great Men, Men of So-
ciety.-- The Disguises of Age.-- Too much Hair. -Hair-
dressing. --- Misuse of the Nose. ---Artificial Odors.

CHAPTER IX.
Discreet Use of the Eye.-Familiar Glances.-The Fashion
of Eye - glasses. - Fast Girls.-Winking. - Sleeping in
Company. - The Somnolence of Washington Irving.---
Ear-boring:-Its Cruelty and Barbarism.

CHAPTER X.
Purity of Speech.-Effect of refined Association.--Exagger-
ation of American Talk.-Fashionable Falsehood.-Plain
Speaking:-Prudishness of Speech.

CHAPTER XI.
The Defects of the American Voice.-Their Cause. -Ugly
Noises with the Mouth.-Decency of Motion.--Attitudin-
izing.Affected Women. -Ugly Tricks.-Hand-shaking.
-Democratic Intrusiveness.-American Publicity. The
Impertinence of British Loyalty. --Salutations.-Care of
the Hands and Nails.

CHAPTER XII.
Effect of Civilization on Dress.-The opposite Progress of
Man and Woman in the Art of Dressing. -The true Rule
of Dress.-Uniformity of Dress in America.- Inappropriateness of Dress.-Sunday-best.....

CHAPTER XIII.
Superfinery of Dress. ---Overdressed Women.-Slatterns at
Home. - Hygiene of Dress.-Child-hardening.--Its Cruelty
and Folly.--Stove-pipe Hats and Dress-coats.

CHAPTER XIV.
Food. --Importance of the Manner of eating Food. - The
Decency of Feeding: ---Its Effect on Health and Appetite.
-Chatted Food. - Dainty Feeders

CHAPTER XV.
Etiquette of the Breakfast.--- Etiquette of the Luncheon.
Etiquette of the Dinner.

CHAPTER XVI.
Etiquette of the Dinner (continued). -After Dinner.

CHAPTER XVII.
Ancient and Modern Hospitality.-Etiquette of the Evening
Party and Ball. --The Effect of late Parties.- Manners
and Morals.-Treatment of Servants.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Visiting Lists.--Report of the Proceedings of a Morning
Visit.-Etiquette of Visits and Cards.-New-Year's Visits.
-At Home, or not at Home ?-P. P. C.

CHAPTER XIX.
American Titles.- Proper Forms of Address.- The Use of
the "Sir" and "Madam."-Professional Titles.-How to
address Letters.- Esq.- Female Titles. -Nicknames.-
Introductions.--Letters of Introduction.- Presentations
to Court.-Visits to the President.

CHAPTER XX.
Births and Christenings. ----Giving of Names.- Presents. --
Visits. --- Caudle Parties. --- Etiquette and Ceremony of
Marriages.--At Church.-In the House.- Death. ---Funeral Ceremonies.-Finis...........