Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage

xiii, 877 pp.The authoritative source for all things proper, completely rewritten and reset in 1945 to include military and post-war etiquette. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of social forms. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Emily Post (October 27, 1872 – September 25, 1960) was an American author on etiquette...Emily Post's name has become synonymous, at least in North America, with proper etiquette and manners. Nearly half a century after her death, her name is still used in titles of etiquette books. In 2008, Laura Claridge wrote Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, the first full-length biography of the author."