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• Etiquette -- Early works to 1800
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• De Civilitate Morun Puerillium / A Lytell Bok of Good Maners for Chyldren (in Latin and English; London: W. de Worde, 1532), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Robert Whittington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Short discourse of the life of servingmen. (Imprinted at London : [By Henry Middleton] for Ralphe Newberrie, dwelling in Fleetestrete, a litle aboue the Conduit, 1578), by Walter Darell and Giovanni Della Casa (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Galateo. English (Imprinted at London : [By Henry Middleton] for Raufe Newbery dwelling in Fleetestreate a litle aboue the Conduit, An. Do. 1576), by Giovanni Della Casa and Robert Peterson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Book of curtesye. ([Westminster : By William Caxton, 1477-1478]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The schoole of vertue and booke of good nourture for chyldren, and youth to learne theyer dutie by. Newely persued, corrected, and augmented by the fyrst auctour. F.S with a briefe declaration of the dutie of eche degree. Anno. 1557. (Imprinted at London : In Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the Hedgehogge by Wyllyam Seares, [Anno. 1557]), by fl. 1549-1563 F. S. (Francis Segar) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Galateo español. English (London : Printed by E. G[riffin] for William Lee, at the Turkes head in Fleete-streete, neere to the Miter Taverne, 1640), by Lucas Gracián Dantisco, William Style, Giovanni Della Casa, and Thomas Cross (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Civil conversatione. Book 1-3. English (Imprinted at London : By Richard Watkins, 1581), by Stefano Guazzo and George Pettie (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Book of curtesye. ([Enprynted atte Westmoster : [Wynkyn de Worde, 1492]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Civilitie of Childehode, With the Discipline and Institucion of Children, Distributed in Small and Compendious Chapiters, and Translated Oute of French into Englysh (London: J. Tisdale, 1560), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Thomas Paynell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Babees' book: medieval manners for the young (Chatto and Windus, 1923), by L. J. Naylor, Edith Rickert, and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The babees' book: medieval manners for the young (Chatto and Windus;, 1908), by Edith Rickert and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur la vie privée de la renaissance. (L. H. May, 1898), by Edmond Bonnaffé (page images at HathiTrust)
• La civilité puérile (I. Liseux, 1877), by Desiderius Erasmus and Alcide Bonneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. [etc.], 1914), by Walter W. Seton, R. W. Chambers, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regular of St. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manners and meals in olden time (Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1868), by Frederick James Furnivall, active 1549-1563 F. S. (Francis Segar), John Russell, Hugh Rhodes, Wynkyn de Worde, and Richard West (page images at HathiTrust)
• A renaissance courtesy-book. Galateo of manners & behaviours (The Merrymount press, 1914), by Giovanni Della Casa, Joel Elias Spingarn, and Robert Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Costumi ornati; studi sugli insegnamenti di cortigiania medievali ... (N. Zanichelli, 1928), by Amos Parducci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galateo español. Affadido el Destierro de ignorancia ... (J.F. Piferrer, impresor de S.M., 1796), by Lucas Gracián Dantisco, Orazio Rinaldi, and Giovanni Della Casa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queene Elizabethes achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert) A booke of precedence. The ordering of a funerall, &c. Varying versions of The good wife, The wise man, &c. Maxims, Lydgate's Order of fools, A poem on heraldry, Oceleve On lords' men, &c. (Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co., 1869), by Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il galateo (G.B. Paravia & c., 1921), by Giovanni Della Casa and Ugo Scoti-Bertinelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un galateo femminile italiano del trecento (G. Laterza & figli, 1910), by Giovanni Battista Festa, Avicenna, and Francesco da Barberino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altdeutsche Tischzuchten. Abhandlung zu dem Osterprogramm des Herzogl. Friedrichgymnasiums zu Altenburg (Druck von O. Bonde, 1882), by M Geyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il libro di buoni costumi di Paolo di Messer Pace da Certaldo; documento di vita trecentesca fiorentina (F. Le Monnier, 1921), by Paolo da Certaldo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Galateo: (riprodotto secondo l'ed. veneziana del 1558) (F. Vallardi, 1910), by Giovanni Della Casa and Carlo Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato ... cognominato Galateo, ovvero de' costumi. Colla traduzione latina a fronte de Niccolò Fierberto Inglese, già pubblicata in Roma l'anno 1595 ... (Presso G. Comino, 1728), by Giovanni Della Casa and Nicholas Fitzherbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1914), by Walter W. Seton, R. W. Chambers, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regular of St. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galateo: or, A treatise on politeness and delicacy of manners (Printed for G. Hill, 1811), by Giovanni Della Casa, Benjamin Edes, and George Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Institucion of a gentleman. (C. Whittingham, 1839), by Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galateo, of manners and behaviours in familiar conversation (Priv. print., 1892), by Giovanni Della Casa (page images at HathiTrust)
• De civilitate morvm pverilivm (Ex officina Reginaldi Calderij, & Claudij eius filij, 1547), by Desiderius Erasmus, Claude Chaudiáere, Regnault Chaudiáere, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A renaissance courtesy-book : Galateo of manners & behaviours (Grant Richards, 1914), by Giovanni Della Casa, Joel Elias Spingarn, and Robert Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rime et prose di m. Giovanni della Casa ... (Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1558), by Giovanni Della Casa, Erasmo Gemini, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The booke of demeanor: from small poems entitled The schoole of vertve (printed by Edw. Griffin, for Nathaniel Butter, near St. Austin's gate by Paul's churchyard., 1817), by Richard West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Børnespeil (Kjøbenhavn, 1894), by Niels Bredal, Joannes Sulpitius Verulanus, and Holger Frederik Rørdam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban cortese. (Coi tipi del Cav. F. Mariotti, 1895), by Leandro Biadene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galatéo español (En la oficina de Juan Francisco Piferrer, 1796), by Lucas Gracián Dantisco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manners and meals in olden times (Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1868), by Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der deutsche Facetus. (Mayer & Müller, 1911), by Carl Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The babees' book: medieval manners for the young (Privately printed, 1913), by Frederick James Furnivall, L. J. Naylor, Edith Rickert, and Marchbanks Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: Done into Modern English, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and Edith Rickert, trans. by L. J. Naylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young, by Frederick James Furnivall, ed. by Edith Rickert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Galateo. English (London : Printed by F.G. for R. Royston ..., 1663), by Giovanni Della Casa and Nathaniel Waker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• English courtesy literature before 1557 (The Jackson press, 1919), by Fred Benjamin Millet (page images at HathiTrust)

• The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lytille childrenes lytil boke, the bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c : with some French and Latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England (Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co., 1868), by Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gentlewomans Companion (1999 edited edition; based on the edition of 1673), ed. by Katherine E. Ellison, contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at Emory)
• The Gentlewoman's Companion, or, A Guide to the Female Sex (London: Printed by A. Maxwell for D. Newman, 1673), contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out to the Full Body: Expressing What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements Doe Best Accomplish Her (London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, 1631), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation: 110 Don'ts (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1942), by George Washington, ed. by John Allen Murray, illust. by Georg T. Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation, by George Washington, ed. by Charles Moore, contrib. by Francis Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility, Traced to Their Sources and Restored (1890), by George Washington, ed. by Moncure Daniel Conway (Gutenberg text)
• The Rules of Civility (manuscript copy), by George Washington (page images at loc.gov)
• Washington's rules of civility and decent behavior in company and conversation. (W. H. Morrison, 1888), by George Washington, W. H. Morrison, and Joseph M. Toner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galateo : or, A treatise on politeness and delicacy of manners (Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774), by Giovanni Della Casa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield to his son, with some account of his life. (C. A. Hinkley, 1824), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nieuwe verhandeling vande hoofsche welgemanierdheyt (By Jacob Graal ..., 1733), by Andries van Buysen, Jacob Graal, and Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einleitung zur Ceremoniel-Wissenschaft der grossen Herren, die in vier besondern Theilen die meisten Ceremoniel-Handlungen, so die europäischen Puissancen überhaupt und die teutschen Landes-Fürsten insonderheit ... zu beobachten pflegen : nebst den mancherley Arten der Divertissemens vorträgt ... (Bey Joh. Andreas Rüdiger, 1729), by Julius Bernhard von Rohr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesterfield's Art of letter writing simplified : being a guide to friendly, affectionate, polite and business correspondence ... : to which is appended the complete rules of etiquette, and the usages of society ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world, by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, ed. by John Trusler, contrib. by John Gregory (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours, by Giovanni Della Casa, trans. by Robert Peterson, contrib. by Joel Elias Spingarn (Gutenberg ebook)
• De officiis inter potentiores et tenuiores amicos. English (London : Printed by A.M. for William Lee ..., First printed in English, May Day, 1665), by Giovanni Della Casa and Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras'd and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D'Ablancourt. Done out of French. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by E. Rumball, at the Post-house in Russel-street in Covent-Garden, 1700), by Cornelius Tacitus, Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssiae, and sieur d' Ablancourt (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Caliope's cabinet opened wherein gentlemen may be informed how to adorn themselves for funerals, feastings, and other heroick meetings : also, here they may know their place and worth with all the degrees and distinctions of honour in the realm, shewing how every one ought to take place with the titles due to them, with other things of antiquity very observable / by James Salter. (London : Printed by G.M. for Will. Crooke ..., 1665), by James Salter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The academy of complements. VVherin ladyes gentlewomen, schollers, and stranges may accomodate their courtly practice with most curious ceremonies, complementall, amorous, high expressions, and formes of speaking, or writing. A worke perused and most exactly perfected and most exactly perfected by the author with additions of witty amorous poems. And a table expounding the hard English words. (London : Printed by T. Badger, for H. Mostley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes armes, in S. Pauls Church-Yard, 1640), by fl. 1639 Philomusus and J. G. fl. 1640 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Mirrour of complements ([S.l. : T. Harper, 1634]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Letters to his son. Selections ([Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia: reprinted and sold by T. Bradford and P. Hall., M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Letters to his son. Selections (Norwich [Conn.]: : Printed and sold by John Trumbull., M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, ed. by John Trusler (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society. [One line from Shakespeare] (Philadelphia: : Printed [by Henry Taylor] for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, in Second Street., MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]), by Hannah More (HTML at Evans TCP)

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