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Title: The Fashionable Letter Writer 1824 1st

Author: The art of polite correspondence: containing a variety of plain and elegant letters : on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, &c., adapted to general use ; with forms of complimentary cards, and a new and easy English grammar, peculiarly applicable to writing letters with accuracy.

Date: 1824

Publisher: E. Peck, Rochester [NY]

Edition: 1st American Imprint

Additional Information: Letter writing guides were valued and very popular in England & America during the18th & 19th cent., and many variations of writing guides were published.

Everett Peck was a distinguished printer & publisher at the turn of 19th cent. His publication of this book is likely its earliest appearance in the US, though the Peck printing has not appeared in the market place for quite some time.

The backstrip & covers are rubbed, but intact and solid. Internally, only light foxing, else the volume is square, clean, bright, and tight

Reserve: $125.00

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