Hints to Servants; Being a Political 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

  • Leather bound
  • London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1843
By BY AN UPPER SERVANT
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1843. Leather bound. Very good +. Kenny MEADOWS. 12mo; 76pp; gilt stamped contemporary calf, 5 banded spine, red leather label, gutters and spine professionally restored; dark teal endpapers; inside dentelles; original cloth front wrapper bound in after text; light scattered foxing to verso free endpapers and fly leaves, small scratch to front board leather; very good plus. A humorous and satirical poetical work about the life of servants referring back to Jonathan's Swift's (1667-1745) essay.

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Title

Hints to Servants; Being a Political 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

BY AN UPPER SERVANT

Binding

Leather bound

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange: London

Date

1843


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