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The compleat servant-maid: or, The young maidens tutor : 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 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.

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Early English Books Online - EEBO
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Series:
Early English books online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cookbooks--Early works to 1800.
Cooking--Early works to 1800.
Cookbooks.
Canning and preserving--Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular.
Beauty, Personal--Early works to 1800.
Women--Education--Early works to 1800.
Women--Education.
Beauty, Personal.
Canning and preserving.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (144, 1 pages, 144-200 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcut)
Edition:
The sixth edition with additions.
Other Title:
Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid
Place of Publication:
London : printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1700.
System Details:
text file
Notes:
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2104:08) s1999 miun s
Cited in:
Wing (2nd edition) W3275A.
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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