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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 suppliment [sic] containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams 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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Household employees.
Conduct of life.
Medicine, Popular.
Cookery--Early works to 1800.
Cookery.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (179, [1] p. bill. )
Edition:
Seventh edition with additions.
Other Title:
Compleat servant-maid
Place of Publication:
London : printed for E. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1704.
Notes:
Anonymous. By Hannah Woolley.
The words "Waiting-woman, ... Under-cook-maid," and "Nursery-maid, ... Scullery-maid." are bracketed together on title page.
With a frontispiece illustration.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T226747.
OCLC:
642551021

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