Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0914046241, Paperback)

This important primary source contains sections of advice on dress, deportment, movement, correct dances, manners and politeness, rules of propriety, etc. Also covers beauty aids and recipes for health. The book contains additional fashion plates from contemporary sources and the original text has been enlarged for easier reading. This is an important work for historians, costumers, historic dancers, and anyone interested in the times of the early United States, the English Regency, Jane Austen, Napoleon, the War of 1812.