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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.
- 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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