CORRECT TABLE SILVER de ELSIE DE WOLFE - 1929: ITS CHOICE AND USE

Magazine size pamphlet saddle-stitched binding. Tight binding Unmarked text. In original mailer with stamp (1929 Seven Cent McKinley Stamp) but Address Mailer removed. An illustrated essay by Elsie de Wolfe (Lady Mendl) on the correct use of table silver. From the Forward: "The words 'approved by Elsie de Wolfe' carry with them an absolute assurance of social correctness and supreme good taste." Suggestions on how to 'start off a bride and how to eventually acquire enough table silver so that at 'each stage of a bride's career' she may entertain in a perfectly correct manner. Precise rules for exactly which pieces and how many of them are required and of course, how to 'perfectly' deploy them during the evening. Illustrated in black & white with a frontispiece portrait of Elsie de Wolfe and many photographs of suggested table settings. 8 separate black & white photographic plates are contained in a folder on the inside back cover. Each plate shows a different style or pattern and all the necessary pieces and optional accessories. CORRECT TABLE SILVER ITS CHOICE AND USE 53119