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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, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service ...

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 ... 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 ... By Hannah Woolley.
Author: Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication: London, Printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman, 1673.

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Description

12 p. l., 262 p., 1 l. incl. front. (port.); 16 cm. (8vo.)

Alternative Title

Gentlewomans companion
Guide to the female sex

Subjects

Note

The portrait (probably that of Sarah Gilly), signed by W. Faithorne, is trimmed and mounted.
"Instructions in the art of cookery," p. 116-160; "Physick and chyrurgery," p. 161-184; "Candying, conserving and preserving," p. 185-194.

Call Number

*KC 1673 (Woolley, H. Gentlewomans companion)

OCLC

43315499

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 ... 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 ... By Hannah Woolley.

Imprint

London, Printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman, 1673.

Local Note

Last leaf (blank?) wanting.

Helen Hay Whitney Collection.

Bound by Root & son.

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Research Call Number

*KC 1673 (Woolley, H. Gentlewomans companion)

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