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.