Manners, culture and dress of the best American society, including social, commercial and legal forms, letter writing, invitations, &c., also valuable suggestions on self culture and home training
Richard A. Wells's 1893 etiquette and self-improvement manual, published by King, Richardson of Springfield, Massachusetts for middle-class American households seeking rules on dress, correspondence, and social forms. The illustrations are wood-engraved decorated initials in which figures, hands holding letters, open books and crackle-textured grounds fill the letterform, giving designers pictorial drop caps and small hatched vignettes.
