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Author Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Title 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.
Alternative Title Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid
Publication Info London : printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1700.
Edition The sixth edition with additions.



Descript 144, 1 p., 144-200, [2] p. : ill. (woodcut)
Edition The sixth edition with additions.
Note 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.
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Author Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid
Descript 144, 1 p., 144-200, [2] p. : ill. (woodcut)
Edition The sixth edition with additions.
Note 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.
Author Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800.
Alternative Title Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid

Subject Cooking -- Early works to 1800.
Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Education -- Early works to 1800.
Descript 144, 1 p., 144-200, [2] p. : ill. (woodcut)
Note 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.

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