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 chyrurgery. Composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670
- Date:
- 1683
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Also known as
Compleat servant-maid
Compleat servant maid
Young maidens tutor
Supplement to the compleat servant-maid.
Publication/Creation
London : printed for T. Passinger, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge, 1683.
Physical description
178 pages, 2 unnumbered pages 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded) : illustrations
Contributors
Edition
The third edition corrected and amended.
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) W3273B.
Notes
By Hannah Woolley.
The words "Waiting-woman, .. Under-cook-maid," and "Nursery-maid, .. Scullery-maid." are bracketed together on title page.
With frontispiece illustration and three final pages of advertisments.
"A supplement to the compleat servant-maid" has separate title page dated 1682; register and pagination are continuous.
Copy imperfect, lacking pp. 11-14 and pp. 123-142; pages stained with some print show-through.
Incorrectly labelled Wing B3273A in reel guide.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2104:07) s1999 miun s