Madam Johnson's present [electronic resource] : 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. 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.
1769
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Madam Johnson's present [electronic resource] : 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. 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.
Author
Johnson, Mary, fl. 1753.
Uniform Title
Young woman's companion
Edition
The fifth edition.
Publication Details
London : printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
197,[19]p. ; 12⁰.
Note
The final nine leaves contain a spelling list, a contents list and a final advertisement leaf.
First published in 1753 as 'Young woman's companion'.
Price from imprint: Price sewed 1s. 3d. Bound 1s. 6d.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
First published in 1753 as 'Young woman's companion'.
Price from imprint: Price sewed 1s. 3d. Bound 1s. 6d.
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
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English Short Title Catalog, T170668.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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