📚 Etiquette

The codified manners of class: from Chesterfield’s letters to the Depression-era cookbooks that said which fork.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject etiquette in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home	Emily Post	1922	125
	Letters to his son	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	1774	114
	Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness	Cecil B. Hartley	1860	28
	Goops and how to be them	Gelett Burgess	1900	27
	The Chinese book of etiquette and conduct for women and girls	Zhao Ban	1900	17
	The complete bachelor	Walter Germain	1896	15
	Nymphs of the valley	Kahlil Gibran	1948	15
	Complete book of etiquette	Amy Vanderbilt	1952	15
	Martine's hand-book of etiquette and guide to true politeness	Arthur Martine	1866	13
	More goops and how not to be them	Gelett Burgess	1903	13
	De civilitate morum puerilium	Desiderius Erasmus	1532	12
	The fine art of small talk	Debra Fine	1960	11
	New complete book of etiquette	Amy Vanderbilt	1963	11
	Manners and social usages	M. E. W. Sherwood	1884	9
	The Correct Thing In Good Society	Florence Howe Hall	1888	9
	The gentlemen's book of etiquette, and manual of politeness	Cecil B. Hartley	1860	8
	Protocol	Mary Jane McCaffree	1977	8
	Miss Manners' guide to excruciatingly correct behavior	Judith Martin	1982	8
	Manners from Heaven	Quentin Crisp	1984	8
	Emily Post's The Guide to Good Manners for Kids	Cindy Post Senning	2004	8
	How to be a perfect stranger	Stuart M. Matlins	2006	8
	American Catholic etiquette	Kay Toy Fenner	1961	7
	Manners	Aliki	1990	7
	Manual de urbanidad y buenas maneras	Manuel Antonio Carreño	1859	6
	Etiquette Handbook	Barbara Cartland	1950	6
	The handbook of etiquette and good manners	Sarah Maclean	1962	6
	I try to behave myself	Peg Bracken	1964	6
	Choosing Civility	P. M. Forni	1957	5
	Miss Manners' basic training	Judith Martin	1996	5
	The ladies' book of etiquette, and manual of politeness	Florence Hartley	1860	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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