The Butler's Guide: To Running the Home and Other Graces
Ager, Stanley and St. Aubyn, Fiona
Language: English
Published by Clarkson Potter, NY NY, 2012
- Hardcover
- New
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Little mark top edge otherwise Fresh NEW clean bright strong covers and text. Not used. Interesting and serious. Useful for a well run home.
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- Title
- The Butler's Guide: To Running the Home and Other Graces
- Author
- Ager, Stanley and St. Aubyn, Fiona
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter, NY NY
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385344708
- ISBN 13
- 9780385344708
- Illustrator
- Iillustrated
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo
Revered by everyone from royalty to the estate staff, Stanley Ager considered it his calling to run a home gracefully and efficiently. Several of the men whom he trained at St. Michael's Mount went on to serve in the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace and at British embassies throughout the world. But you don't need a manor to benefit from Ager's wisdom on homekeeping. This carefully detailed, charmingly illustrated, eminently useful volume offers important insights and techniques, including how to:
Wipe a glass--or a chandelier--until it sparkles *** Fold napkins precisely--in six different ways *** Polish furniture--or silver--to a mirror finish *** Lay a beautiful table and serve a meal impeccably *** Brush, buff, and maintain any manner of clothes and footwear *** Fold and pack for a trip--for business or pleasure *** Select and pour wine *** Stage "impromptu" romantic picnics *** And, among other graces, open a door soundlessly, roll an umbrella perfectly, and iron a newspaper
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About the Author
Fiona St. Aubyn is also the author of A Portrait of Georgian London and wrote ClothesCarewith James Wagenvoord. She graduated from the University of Winchester with a degree in creative writing and lives in Hampshire with her family. Fiona St. Aubyn is a granddaughter of the late third Lord St. Levan and his wife the Dowager Lady St. Levan, and her brother now lives at St. Michael's Mount. She knew Stanley Ager all her life.
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