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 chirurgery / composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
1691
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Title
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 chirurgery / composed for the great benefit and advantage of all young maidens.
Edition
The fifth edition, corrected and amended.
Created/published
London : Printed for Tho. Passenger, at the Three Bibles and Star on London-Bridge, 1691.
Description
178, [2] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : port. ; 15 cm (12mo)
Associated name
Passinger, T., active 1691-1694, bookseller.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670, associated name.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670, associated name.
Note
Published anonymously. "An unauthorized work based on [Hannah Woolley's] books and adorned by a spurious portrait and unreliable biographical information was published in 1673 as The Gentlewomans Companion, and similar works followed in 1675 (The Accomplished Ladies Delight) and 1685 [i.e. 1683] (The Compleat Servant-Maid). Like her authentic works, these were reprinted frequently." -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Signatures: A-G¹² H⁶; D3 missigned 'D5'.
Frontispiece portrait--possibly meant to resemble Hannah Woolley--on leaf A1 verso; two etched plates of calligraphy; three final pages of advertisements (H5v-H6v).
'A supplement to the Compleat servant-maid' has a separate dated title page.
Signatures: A-G¹² H⁶; D3 missigned 'D5'.
Frontispiece portrait--possibly meant to resemble Hannah Woolley--on leaf A1 verso; two etched plates of calligraphy; three final pages of advertisements (H5v-H6v).
'A supplement to the Compleat servant-maid' has a separate dated title page.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019. First Chefs.Opening : Title page.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, R232224
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) W3275
Notaker, H. Printed cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700, 558.6
Cagle, W.R. Matter of taste, no. 1061
Oxford, A.W. English cookery books to the year 1850, page 39-40, note
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) W3275
Notaker, H. Printed cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700, 558.6
Cagle, W.R. Matter of taste, no. 1061
Oxford, A.W. English cookery books to the year 1850, page 39-40, note
Includes
Supplement to the Compleat servant-maid
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
270- 105q
Folger-specific note
Trimmed closely at head, some headlines cropt or shaved; edges roughened, possibly with a tool. Frontispiece backed; final leaf silked. In a modern leather (goatskin) binding, blind fillets, gold-tooled spine; red leather spine label. Acquired at Bonham's auction (24116:23) 2017-11-15. Purchase made possible by The K. Frank and Joycelyn C. Austen Acquisitions Endowment.
Folger accession
270105