An American. Ladies and Gentlemen's American Etiquette, with the Rules of Polite Society; to which is added Hints on Dress, Courtship, etc. Boston: Published by J. Buffum, ca. 1855. [12048]
Dark green publisher's cloth decorated in gilt & in blind, gilt dull yet the binding remains clean and undamaged, 4 3/4 x 3 inches. Small oval clipping of a genuine photo portrait pasted to the ffep, with "Mr. George Martz, Esq." in pencil beneath. Hand-colored floral frontispiece with wrinkled tissue-guard, this floral plate is beginning to separate from the book. 111 pages, light foxing; all page edges gilt. Good. Hardcover.
"Andover: J. D. Flagg, Stereotyper and Printer" on verso of the title page. John Dalton Flagg left Andover for Boston in 1857. (Andover Historic Preservation online).
The publisher, Job Buffum, a native of Nashua, New Hampshire, established his Boston publishing firm in 1850, and continued in business until 1861.
This makes the date of this book of etiquette to be between 1850 and 1857. Running title: American Etiquette.
