Madam Johnson's present : Or, Every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. Spelling, reading, writing, and arith[met]ick taught without the help of a master. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry, and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordindary occasions. VIII. The young woman's instructor for the right spelling of words used in marketing, cookery, pickling, preserving,&c. To this edition is added, several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published. The compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this book come as cheap as possible to the purchasers, has out of her benevolence, fixed the price at 1s. 6d. bound; though it contains double the quality that is usually sold for that sum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Mary, active 1753.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Young woman's companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Young women--Education--Early works to 1800.

Young women.

Young women--Education.

Physical Description:

iv,192 pages, 20 unnumbered pages,plate : portrait ; 12⁰

Edition:

The second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Fuller, in Blowbladder-Street, Cheapside, 1759.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Some vertical chain lines.

The final 10 leaves contain 'The young woman's instructor'.

First published in 1753 as 'Young woman's companion'.

Price on title page: Price sewed 1s. 3d. Bound 1s. 6d.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.

Cited in:

Alston, IV.612

English Short Title Catalog, T170669.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.