Madam Johnson's present : or, the best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and Instructions how to marry purinant thereto. Digested under the following Heads. I. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. II. The Art and Terms of Carving, Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. III. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. IV. The young Woman's Guide to Knowledge. V. A new English Spelling Dictionary. VI. The Compleat Market-Woman. Vii. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh Fowl and Fish. Viii. Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. With several useful tables, being the compleatest Book of the Kind ever published.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Mary, fl. 1753.

Standardized Title:

Young woman's companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],ii,[1],vi-xiv,222,[2]p. )

Other Title:

Madam Johnson's present

Place of Publication:

London : printed for M. Cooper, Pater-Noster-Row; and C. Sympson, at the Bible, Chancery-Lane, [1755]

Notes:

Titlepage in red and black.

With a final contents leaf.

A reissue of the sheets of 'The young woman's companion', London, 1753, with a new titlepage and 'A summary of the late Marriage Act'.

Price from imprint: Price sewed 1s. 3d. bound 1s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, IV.611

English Short Title Catalog, T106312.

OCLC:

642254834