Madam Johnson's present; or, the best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and Instructions how to marry purinant thereto. Digested under the following Heads. I. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. II. The Art and Terms of Carving, Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. III. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. IV. The young Woman's Guide to Knowledge. V. A new English Spelling Dictionary. VI. The Compleat Market-Woman. Vii. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh Fowl and Fish. Viii. Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. With several useful tables, being the compleatest Book of the Kind ever published.
- Johnson, Mary, active 1753.
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- [1755]
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Young woman's companion
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London : printed for M. Cooper, Pater-Noster-Row; and C. Sympson, at the Bible, Chancery-Lane, [1755]
Physical description
[2],ii,[1],vi-xiv,222,[2]p. ; 120.
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References note
ESTC T106312
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