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New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Gaskell's Compendium of Forms: - Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to english compositionEducational, Social, Legal and Commercial embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and boo is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1881.Hans Elektronisches Buch is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hans Elektronisches Buch newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Early edition. Small quarto, 11 x 9 inches, publisher's decorated mustard brown cloth, very good, general surface soil to covers, some toning to contents. 587 pp. With sections on penmanship including Spencerian handwriting. Not as fancy as Hill's similar manual, but still very nice and with lots of information on late 19th century business and etiquette.

Early edition. Small quarto, 11 x 9 inches, publisher's decorated mustard brown cloth, very good, general surface soil to covers, some toning to contents. 587 pp. With sections on penmanship including Spencerian handwriting. Not as fancy as Hill's similar manual, but still very nice and with lots of information on late 19th century business and etiquette.

Mustard cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt over beveled boards shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, and slight loss at the corners and spine ends. Pages are lightly tanned with minor scattered foxing. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.

9 X 10. General shelf wear, rubbed extremities, black & white illustrations, no markings, clean, tight binding, gold gilt lettering on spine and cover, foxing Title Page: "Embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping and aid to english composition; together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and business laws and commercial forms. A manuel of agriculture, mechanics, and mining and a complete guide to parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference" OVERSIZED NEEDS ADDITONAL POSTAGE _PAB_

Chicago: Fairbanks, Palmer & Co., 1883. 26th edition, 1883. Hard to find in full leather. Thick volume, an extensive reference covering all kinds of forms and instruction in Victorian business and social etiquette. Full brown leather lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, gilt tooled inner dentelles, patterned blue endpapers, frontis portrait of the author, other illustrations throughout, more than two inches thick. Spine skillfully repaired with well-matched leather, surviving parts of original spine covering preserved, some very light chipping to far outer edges of covers, endpapers worn and unevenly faded, lower part of front hinge repaired, binding sound, foxing to frontis (mainly on the blank reverse side), some darkening to inner margins of last few pages, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.