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Household work; or, The duties of female servants : practically and economically illustrated, through the respective grades of maid-of-all-work, house and parlour-maid, and laundry-maid: with many valuable recipes for facilitating labour in every department; prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley

[187-?]

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/SER Contains digital media

The servants practical guide : a handbook of duties and rules

[1880]

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/ADA Contains digital media

The complete servant : being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables

Adams, Samuel (fl.1825); Adams, Sarah

1825

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/GLA

The servants directory, or house-keepers companion : wherein the duties of the chamber-maid, nursery-maid, house-maid, landery-maid, cullion, or under-cook, are fully and distinctly explained. To which is annexed a diary, or house-keeper's pocket-book for the whole year. With directions for keeping accounts with tradesmen, and many other particulars, fit to be known by the mistress of a family

Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)

1760

Includes tables.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/COS

The footman's directory, and butler's remembrancer; or, the advice of Onesimus to his young friends : comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of... work; rules for setting out tables and sideboards; the art of waiting at table ... large and small parties ... cleaning plate, glass, furniture, clothes, and all other things ... within the care of a man-servant; and advice respecting behaviour, to superiors, tradespeople, and fellow-servants. With an appendix, comprising various useful receipts and tables

Cosnett, Thomas

1825

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/NEW Contains digital media

The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : containing general rules for the regulation of female conduct, and the formation of moral habits; together with the elements of science, as geography, astronomy, natural history, botany, &c.... being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life

1836

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/NEW Contains digital media

The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge

[1824]

Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/NEW Contains digital media

The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge

[ca.1825?]

With additional engraved title-page, dated 1822, reading "The female instructor; or young woman's guide to domestic happiness..." Preface dated 1818.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/NEW Contains digital media

The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : containing general rules for the regulation of female conduct, and the formation of moral habits; together with the elements of science, as geography, astronomy, natural history, botany, &c.... being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life

1837

Frontispiece dated 1834.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery B/AUD

La maison reglée et l'art de diriger la maison d'un grand seigneur & autres : tant à la ville qu'à la campagnia & le devoir de tous les officiers & autres domestiques en general. Avec la veritable methode de faire toutes sortes d'essences, d'eaux, & de liqueurs, fortes & refraîchissantes, à la mode d'Italie... [etc.]

Audiger

1700

Dedication signed: Audiger. Advertisement: p. [16]-[23], 2nd group. References: Goldsmiths' Lib. cat : 3716.

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Archive Print part: BC Gen/BAR

A present for a servant maid : or, The sure means of gaining love and esteem... To which are added directions for going to market; also, for dressing any common dish, whether flesh, fish, or fowl. With some rules for washing, &c

Haywood, Eliza Fowler (1693?-1756)

1743

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