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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 [sic] 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
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The compleat servant-maid: or, The young maidens tutor [electronic resource] : 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 [sic] 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.
Edition
The sixth edition with additions.
Published
London : printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1700.
Physical Description
144, 1 p., 144-200, [2] p. : ill. (woodcut)
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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)
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Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid
Early English books online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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July 19, 2020
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Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), W3275A.
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