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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 supplement containing the choicest receipts, and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cookbooks--Early works to 1800.
- Cookbooks.
- Cooking--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking.
- Canning and preserving--Early works to 1800.
- Canning and preserving.
- House cleaning--Early works to 1800.
- House cleaning.
- Medicine, Popular--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Beauty, Personal--Early works to 1800.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Women--Education--Early works to 1800.
- Women.
- Women--Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 pages, 2 unnumbered pages 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded)) : illustrations
- Edition:
- The third edition corrected and amended.
- Other Title:
- Compleat servant-maid
- Compleat servant maid
- Young maidens tutor
- Supplement to the compleat servant-maid.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for T. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge, 1683.
- 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 three final pages of advertisments.
- "A supplement to the compleat servant-maid" has separate title page dated 1682; register and pagination are continuous.
- Copy imperfect, lacking pp. 11-14 and pp. 123-142; pages stained with some print show-through.
- Incorrectly labelled Wing B3273A in reel guide.
- 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 ; 2104:07) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd edition) W3273B.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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