Research Catalog

Title

Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal Knowledge. Digested under the following Heads: I. Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick, taught without the Help of a Master. II. The Compleat Market-Woman. III. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl and Fish. IV. For Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. V. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. VI. The Art and Terms of Carving Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. Vii. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner, Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. Viii. The Young Woman's Instructor for the right Spelling of Words used in Marketting, Cookery, Pickling, Preserving, &c. &c. &c. To this edition are added, some plain and necessary directions to maid-servants in general, and several useful tables: Which renders it the Completest Book of the Kind ever published. The Compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this Book come as cheap as possible to the Purchasers, has, out of her Benevolence, fixed the Price at 1 s. 6 d. Bound; though it contains double the Quantity that is usually sold for that Sum [electronic resource].

Author

Johnson, Mary, active 1753.

Publication

London : printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Details

Description

197,[19]p.; 12⁰.

Uniform Title

Young woman's companion

Alternative Title

Young woman's companion

Subjects

• Home economics > Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English > Early works to 1800

Note

• The final nine leaves contain a spelling list, a contents list and a final advertisement leaf.
• First published as 'Young woman's companion'.
• Braces in imprint.
• Price from imprint: Price sewed, 1 s. 3 d. Bound 1 s. 6 d.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• Alston
• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642334614
• ECCO1-T122631

Author

Johnson, Mary, active 1753.

Title

Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal Knowledge. Digested under the following Heads: I. Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick, taught without the Help of a Master. II. The Compleat Market-Woman. III. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh, Fowl and Fish. IV. For Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. V. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. VI. The Art and Terms of Carving Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. Vii. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner, Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. Viii. The Young Woman's Instructor for the right Spelling of Words used in Marketting, Cookery, Pickling, Preserving, &c. &c. &c. To this edition are added, some plain and necessary directions to maid-servants in general, and several useful tables: Which renders it the Completest Book of the Kind ever published. The Compiler, Madam Johnson, in order to make this Book come as cheap as possible to the Purchasers, has, out of her Benevolence, fixed the Price at 1 s. 6 d. Bound; though it contains double the Quantity that is usually sold for that Sum [electronic resource].

Imprint

London : printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Edition

The fourth edition.

Indexed In:

Alston, IV.614

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T122631.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.