• Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - front cover
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - rear cover and spine
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - front pastedown and free endpaper with cracked hinge
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - front endpapers
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - title page
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - copyright page and preface
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - contents
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - diagram of the parts of a letter and introduction
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - Business Letters chapter page
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - specimen letter enclosing remittance and New York bank draft
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - specimen script letter and letters of application
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - postal information, state abbreviations and index
  • Business and Social Correspondence, 1895 Williams & Rogers hardcover - rear endpapers
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Business and Social Correspondence: A Text-Book

Business and Social Correspondence: A Text-Book

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Book Notes: Front and rear hinges cracked with the binding thread and mesh exposed; front free endpaper partly detached at the gutter; text block still attached. Red-brown cloth boards with black-stamped decorative border and title; light rubbing, a few small spots, and fraying at the spine ends and corners. Spine rubbed and faded with fraying at the head. Pages toned with light foxing; text clean. Faint pencil owner name at the top of the front free endpaper, mostly illegible (reads approximately 'Maud ... Roured' [?]). Small pencil numeral '7' at the top of the last blank leaf.

Author(s): Williams & Rogers
Edition: Revised

Publication year: 1895

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Williams & Rogers

Condition: Acceptable
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An 1895 revised school text-book on letter writing, published by Williams & Rogers of Rochester and Chicago. Its preface says the earlier version dealt only with business letters, and this revision adds social correspondence. Contents cover the parts of a letter, folding, sealing, addressing and stamping, business letters (ordering goods, enclosures, recommendation, application, dunning), telegraphing, social letters of friendship, congratulation and condolence, and postal information, with specimen script letters, a sample bank draft, and exercises.

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