The whole duty of a woman, or, An infallible guide to the fair sex : containing rules, directions, and observations, for their conduct and behavior through all ages and circumstances of life, as virgins, wives, or widows : with directions, how to obtain all useful and fashionable accomplishments suitable to the sex : in which are comprised all parts of good housewifry, particularily rules and receipts in every kind of cookery ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esther B. Aresty Collection of Rare Books on the Culinary Arts (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Women--Conduct of life.

Table setting and decoration.

Beverages.

Beauty culture.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Aresty, Esther B. (donor)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered page-[2], iv pages, 3 unnumbered pages-692, that is, 682 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Infallible guide to the fair sex

Whole duty of a woman

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Reed ..., 1737.

Notes:

Remainder of t.p.: To which is added, bills of fare for every month in the year, curiously engraven on copper plates, with the forms of tables and dishes, and the shapes of pies, tarts, and pasties. With instructions for marketing. Also rules and receipts for making all the choicest cordials for the closet: brewing beers, ales, &c. Making all sorts of English wines, cyder, mum, mead, metheglin, vinegar, verjuice, catchup, &c. With some fine perfumes, pomatums, cosmeticks and other beautifiers.

Signatures: A (A1+a1.2) B-4K 4L1 4M-4R 4S .

List of subscribers on leaf a2.

Errors in pagination: page numbers 527 and 528 repeated in sequence; numbers 539 and 540 omitted; numbers 654-682 numbered 664-692.

OCLC:

13334206