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Hints to servants: being a poetical and modernised version of Dean Swift's celebrated "Directions to servants"; in which something is added to the original text, but those passages are omitted which cannot with propriety to read aloud in a kitchen, by an upper servant.

Title: Hints to servants: being a poetical and modernised version of Dean Swift's celebrated "Directions to servants"; in which something is added to the original text, but those passages are omitted which cannot with propriety to read aloud in a kitchen, by an upper servant. Illus. with 12 original designs of Kenny Meadows, engraved by John Jackson.
Author: Jones, John, 1774-
Publication: London, E. Wilson, 1843.

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Description

76 p. illus.; 18 cm.

Subject

Household employees

Note

Preface signed: John Jones.

Call Number

MEM M482jo (Jones, J. Hints to servants)

OCLC

39289503

Author

Jones, John, 1774-

Title

Hints to servants: being a poetical and modernised version of Dean Swift's celebrated "Directions to servants"; in which something is added to the original text, but those passages are omitted which cannot with propriety to read aloud in a kitchen, by an upper servant. Illus. with 12 original designs of Kenny Meadows, engraved by John Jackson.

Imprint

London, E. Wilson, 1843.

Added Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Directions to servants in general.

Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874. Illustrator

Jackson, John, 1801-1848. Engraver

Duyckinck Collection.

Research Call Number

MEM M482jo (Jones, J. Hints to servants)

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