Remainder of subtitle: ... now newly pluckt from popular letter-writing manuals of yore, that is to say, the early nineteenth century. Here offered as an edifying guide to affairs of the heart for the amorous, the pestered, or the merely confused. And lovingly embellished with numerous ingenious decorations, cunningly wrought.

Decorated title page, frontispiece, and page decorations.

Titles printed in red.

"Printed in an edition of forty-five copies. The type is Walbaum, machine-set by Michael & Winifred Bixler ... Decorations and binding by Coriander Reisbord; typography and printing by Asa Peavy"--Colophon.

Bound in gold cloth boards with inset cover decoration and label.