Hints to Servants: Being a Poetical and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated 'Directions to Servants'; in Which Something is Added to the Original Text, But Those Passages are Omitted Which Cannot With Propriety be Read Aloud in a Kitchen

Published by Effingham Wilson, London, 1843

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[5], 6-76pp, plates. Original blind stamped blue / green cloth, upper cover with gilt title and central vignette. Upper cover and spine faded and soiled, especially to edges, rubbed to extremities, corners gently bumped. Cracked between front free endpaper and first illustration, title browned, text lightly browned, the odd small spot of foxing, but generally fairly clean. With twelve full page illustrations of various servants by Kenny Meadows. A poetic parody of Swift. Five locations in Library Hub. Attar 390.1 Size: 12mo.

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Title
Hints to Servants: Being a Poetical and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated 'Directions to Servants'; in Which Something is Added to the Original Text, But Those Passages are Omitted Which Cannot With Propriety be Read Aloud in a Kitchen
Author
An Upper Servant; [Jones, John]
Publisher
Effingham Wilson, London
Publication year
1843
Condition
Fair
Binding
Hardback
Illustrator
Meadows, Kenny
Edition
First Edition.
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Cookery, Nineteenth Century, Poetry, Plays, Music, Theatre and Film

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