The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.

  • Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
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The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by T.J. for Edward Thomas, 1682.

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24 unnumbered pages, 371 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait (engraving) ; 15 cm (12mo)

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Edition

The third edition.

Notes

The frontispiece portrait probably does not represent the author.--see Ferguson, p. 59-60
Advertisements for popular medicines sold by the publisher: final page
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: E.M. Lawson Note: Binding: 18th cent. calf, tooled in gilt on spine and edges

References note

Ferguson, J. Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets, 6th supplement (1910), no. 79
Wing (2nd ed.), W3278
ESTC R221171
Wing (2nd ed.) W3278

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