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 supplement containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens

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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 supplement containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chirurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens
  • Young maidens tutor
  • Supplement to the compleat servant maid.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Tho. Passenger, at the Three Bibles and Star on London-Bridge, 1691. The fifth edition corrected and amended.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1691
ESTC No.
R232224
Grub Street ID
104065
Description
178, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates ; 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

With one final advertisement leaf

The words "Waiting-woman, .. Under-cook-maid," and "Nursery-maid, .. Scullery-maid." are bracketed together on title page

"A supplement to the compleat servant maid" has separate dated title page; register and pagination are continuous

With a frontispiece (plate); at foot of p. 26: "Here place the two plates".