Madam Johnson's present: Or, Every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. Spelling, reading, writing, and arith[met]ick taught without the help of a master. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry, and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordindary occasions. VIII. The young woman's instructor for the right spelling of words used in marketing, cookery, pickling, preserving,&c. To this edition is added, several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published. The compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this book come as cheap as possible to the purchasers, has out of her benevolence, fixed the price at 1s. 6d. bound; though it contains double the quality that is usually sold for that sum.

  • Johnson, Mary, active 1753.
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1759
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Young woman's companion

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for J. Fuller, in Blowbladder-Street, Cheapside, 1759.

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iv,192,[20]p.,plate : port. ; 120.

Edition

The second edition.

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ESTC T170669
Alston, IV.612

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