POPULAR GUIDE ON HOW TO WIRTE LETTERS

LA SERRE, JEAN-PUGET DE.

Le Secretaire a la Mode, Ou methode facile d'escrive selon le temps diverses Lettres de Compliment, Amoureuses, & Morales. 2 vols.

Paris, Gandouin, 1648.

8vo. In contemporary full calf with blind-tooled ornamentation to spine. Light wear to extremities and head of spine chipped. A few corrections in contemporary hand and a marginal dampstain affecting app. 30 ff. (8), 159, (1), 250, (6) pp. + frontispiece.

Early edition of La Serre popular manual for different ways in which to improve communication via letter including appeals for favors, wishing a sick friend good health, thank you-letters and how to congratulate a newly married couple.
It was published in numerous edition and was translated into English, German and Dutch.

Order-nr.: 60996