Item #025776 Hints to Servants: Being a Poetical and Modernized 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. Jonathan Swift, John Jones.
Hints to Servants: Being a Poetical and Modernized 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.

Hints to Servants: Being a Poetical and Modernized 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.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1843. First Edition. Small Octavo. Item #025776

76pp. illustrated with 12 original designs including frontispiece by Kenny Meadows, engraved by John Jackson., poetry set to various servants such as The Butler, The Cook, The Valet, The Waiting Woman the House made and more. A lovely book bound in 3/4 brown Morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. A clean bright copy.

Price: $250.00

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