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.
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
- Date:
- 1700
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About this work
Also known as
Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1700.
Physical description
144, 1 page, 144-200 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcut).
Contributors
Edition
The sixth edition with additions.
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.
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) W3275A.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2104:08) s1999 miun s