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. 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
  • Compleat servant-maid; Compleat servant maid; Young maidens tutor; Supplement to the compleat servant-maid
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1700. The sixth edition with additions.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1700
ESTC No.
R221146
Grub Street ID
95349
Description
144, 1 p., 144-200, [2] p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 12°.
Note
"An unauthorized work based on [Hannah Wooley's] books and adorned by a spurious portrait and unreliable biographical information was published in 1673 as The Gentlewomans Companion, and similar works followed in 1675 (The Accomplished Ladies Delight) and 1685 [sic] (The Compleat Servant-Maid). Like her authentic works, these were reprinted frequently." -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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.