Habits of Good Society

The History of a Book written by a Man in a Window.Off to a New Home and Who Owned it LastThis book is on its way to a new owner in Tampa, Florida, which is more of an irony in its destination than it sounds.Where it spent its first hundred years, nobody knows.According to his daughter, sometime in the middle of the last century a man bought it from a second-hand dealer somewhere in Ontario and carried it home.This man was a writer, an artist and a reviewer, and a collector of books on peculiar and arcane subjects, and his shelves show it. For decades this relatively unassuming volume, a handbook on how ladies and gentlemen ought to dress, dine and conduct themselves, stood in southern Ontario alongside The Hirsute Female, an 1895 first edition of The Evil Eye: An Account of the Ancient and Widespread Superstition, and The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England.But this book was a primer on correct behaviour in the company of books…

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