The ladies complete letter-writer

Posted on November 3, 2022 by km55

printed title page

Title: The ladies complete letter-writer : teaching the art of inditing letters … Being a collection of letters, written by ladies … the whole forming a polite and improving manual …
Edition: The second edition, with corrections and additions.
Publication: London : Printed for the editor, and sold by T. Lownds in Fleet-Street, [1765]

19 765L

Acquired July 2021

The art of correspondence

Posted on May 10, 2022 by km55

book, printed text

Title: The art of correspondence, consisting of letters on various subjects, selected chiefly from the works of eminent authors. In French and English : To which are added, letters, notes, &c. on domestic concerns, and addairs of business.
Publication: London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, 18, Strand, 1817.
Manufacture: [London] : Imprimé par Schulze et Dean, No. 13, rue de Poland, à Londres.

659 817 Ar784

Acquired April 2021

Posted on April 7, 2021 by km55

Title: The accomplished letter-writer; or, Universal correspondent. : Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples and improvement of style, from the best modern authors, together with many originals, on business, duty, amusement, affection, courtship, marriage, friendship, and other subjects. To which is prefixed a compendious grammar of the English tongue. Also a table of the clerk-like contraction of words, for the dispatch of business; and the proper mode of addressing people of all ranks, either in writing or discourse; and some necessary orthographical directions. With a selection of some beautiful poetical epistles, and various forms of polite messages.
Published: London: : Printed for T. Caslon, in Stationers’-Court, and J. Ashburner, in Kendal., 1779.

53 Ac172 779

Acquired January 2020