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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: viz. ... : with letters and discourses upon all occasions : whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service : the whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general
- Title
- 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: viz. ... : with letters and discourses upon all occasions : whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, dairy-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.
- Author
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
- Publication
- London : Printed by T.J. for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1682.
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- Description
- [24], 371 [i.e. 395], [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 15 cm. (12mo)
- Alternative Title
- Gentlewomans companion
- Guide to the female sex
- Subjects
- Cooking, English > Early works to 1800
- Food > Preservation > Early works to 1800
- Medicine > Formulae, receipts, prescriptions > Early works to 1800
- Etiquette for women > Handbooks, manuals, etc > Early works to 1800
- Etiquette for women > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
- Medicine, Popular > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
- Women > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Note
- "As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house. Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world. Prudent to all." (These words are bracketed on the title page.)
- Title page printed in red and black.
- Error in paging: nos. 217-240 repeated.
- Signatures: A-R¹² S⁶.
- Illustrations: Frontispiece port. of the author, signed: W. Faithorne fe.
- "Instructions in the art of cookery ... in an alphabetical order": p. 176-235.
- Includes also "An introduction to physick and chyurgery" and instructions for "candying, conserving, preserving and distilling" (p. [244]-[302]).
- Indexed In (note)
- ESTC (RLIN)
- Wing (2nd ed.)
- Call Number
- *KU 01-253
- OCLC
- 37690682
- NYPGR37690682-B
- Author
- Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
- Title
- 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: viz. ... : with letters and discourses upon all occasions : whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, dairy-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.
- Imprint
- London : Printed by T.J. for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1682.
- Edition
- The third edition.
- Indexed In:
- ESTC (RLIN) R221171Wing (2nd ed.) W3278
- Local Note
- Imperfect: Portrait wanting.Advertisement for pharmaceutical products sold by Edward Thomas: p. [396].Helen Hay Whitney Collection.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *KU 01-253