The compleat servant-maid; or, The young maidens tutor : directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any sort 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.

  • Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
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1685
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Also known as

Compleat servant-maid
Young maidens tutor.
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid.

Publication/Creation

London : printed for Tho. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1685.

Physical description

6 unnumbered pages, 9-178 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plate (folded)

Edition

The fourth edition corrected and amended.

References note

Wing (2nd ed.) W3274.

Notes

By Hannah Woolley.
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.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1962:16) s1999 miun s

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