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Subject(s)

• Home economics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mathematics—Instruction and study—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Plants, Cultivated—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Diseases—Handbooks, manuals, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Publisher

• Newbery, John, 1713-1767 [Browse]

Engraver

• Bickham, John [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Cookbooks [Browse]
• Menus [Browse]
• Penmanship manuals [Browse]
• Manuals (Handbooks) [Browse]
• Dictionaries [Browse]
• Drawing books [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

Notes

• List of contents follows title on t.p.
• Preface on p. [iii]-[vi], with pictorial tailpiece, and Dedication on p. [vii]-[xiv], signed by "The Editors."
• Publisher's advertisement on first leaf for "books, &c. just publish'd and sold by J. Newbery," listing 7 numbered titles, including: the 3rd ed. of "A Set of Fifty-six Squares" (item no. II), priced 1s., and "A Little pretty Pocket Book" (no. III). No advertsiement on 4 pages at end (cf. 1767 A
• No advertisements at end (cf. Roscoe's A1, from 1767?)
• Index on 13 p at end.
• Illustrations: Two facing engraved leaves of letters and numbers in "Round" and Italian" hands, numbered "44" and "45" at top, bound in between pages 44-45, signed by "I. Bickham, sc.", with several wood-engraved table-setting arrangements within the text.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front pastedown: "Michael Croll, his book, Anno Domini 1765" and below that in pencil, Mr. C. Boyer, 1891"; also inscribed: "Mick Croll" on read free endpaper recto and "Michael Croll 3/6" on verso.

Binding note

Cotsen copy: Full calf, with gilt decorative borders on covers and gilt-rules above and below raised bands on spine.

Contents

• I. Reflections on the education of the fair sex; with characters for their imitation.
• II. The penman's advice to the ladies; or the art of writing made easy, and entertaining.
• III. Instructions for addressing persons of distinction, in writing or discourse.
• IV. An easy introduction to the study of practical arithmetic.
• V. Directions for copying prints or drawings, and painting either in oil or water colours, or with crayons.
• VI. Directions for marketing, with respect to butcher's meat, poulterer's ware, and fish.
• VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year.
• VIII. Receipts in cookery, pastry, &c.
• IX. Instructions for carving and placing dishes on the table.
• X. All sorts of pickles, made wines, &c.
• XI. Remarks on the nature and qualities of the most common ailments.
• XII. Recipes in physick and surgery.
• XIII. Remarks on the causes and symptoms of most diseases.
• XIV. The florist's kalendar.
• XV. Familiar letters on several occasions in common life: with instructions to young orphan ladies how to judge of proposals of marriage made to them without the consent of their friends or guardians.
• XVI. A dictionary serving for the translation of ordinary English words into more scholastic ones.

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References

• Roscoe, A1(1)?
• ESTC, T122783

Other title(s)

• Gentlewoman's companion
• Accomplishd housewife
• Accomplished housewife

OCLC

24612702

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