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| Title | Young man's guide (title page) |
| Author | Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859 |
| Publisher | Perkins and Marvin
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| Publisher Location | United States--Massachusetts--Boston |
| Publication Date | 1841 |
| Image Production Process | Relief prints--wood engravings
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| Notes | Illustrated with uncolored wood engravings.
Fourteenth edition.
In advertisement for the first edition: "The great purpose of the Young Man's Guide, is the formation of such character in our young men as shall render them the worthy and useful and happy members of a great republic. To this end the author enters largely into the means of improving the mind, the manners and the morals; as well as the proper management of business. Something is also said on amusements, and bad habits."
Sections include discussions of "Indolence", "On Forming Temperate Habits" ( Examples of rational living. Indulgences very expensive. Spending time at meals. Water drinkers the best guests), "Dress" (Neither be first or last in fashion. Women often not misled by dress), "How To Take Men as They Are" (Six sort of people from whom you are not to expect much aid or sympathy in life: the sordid, the lazy, the busy, the rich, those miserable from poverty and the silly), "Use of Tobacco" (Tobacco does not preserve the teeth), "Female Society in General" (How it polishes and improves us), "Why Matrimony is a duty" (Seven great evils from late marriage), "Licentiousness" (Example of premature decrepitude), "Rudeness of Manners" (Wearing hats in the house). |
| Contextual Notes | William Andrus Alcott was a physician and teacher who wrote many books on the topics of education and health, and who warned young people about the dangers of courtship. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Young men -- Conduct of life |
| Category | Manners and social etiquette
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0408 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection BJ1671 A3 1841 |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | 360 p.; 16 x 10 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Photographed from original book in TIFF format using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2009. |
