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Record Nr.

UNISA996390175203316

Autore

Woolley Hannah <fl. 1670.>

Titolo

The compleat servant-maid: or, The young maidens tutor [[electronic resource] ] : Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-woman, house-keeper, chamber-maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a suppiiment [sic] containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English ham equal to Westphalia. The compleat market-man and market-woman, in buying fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness or badness in every respect, to prevent being cheated. Never before printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1700

Edizione

[The sixth edition with additions.]

Descrizione fisica

144, 1 p., 144-200, [2] p. : ill. (woodcut)

Soggetti

Cookery

Canning and preserving

Medicine, Popular

Beauty, Personal

Women - Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

By Hannah Woolley.

The words "Waiting-woman, ... Under-cook-maid," and "Nursery-maid, ... Scullery-maid." are bracketed together on title page.

With frontispiece illustration and a final advertisement leaf.

"A supplement to the compleat servant-maid" has separate dated title page; register is continuous in spite of pagination error; text is complete.

Copy stained and cropped with mutilated margins and some loss of print; signatures and pagination lacking on some leaves.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018