Letters About Missusses, or By A Maid of All-Work: Addressed To the Editor of Dignese, to a Friend in Teh Neighbourhood. In Which She Sets Forth Ina Peculiarly Interesting Manner, the Domestic Grievances of Domestioc Servants in General
Half-Leather
1854 · London
by Crick, Susan (pseud). Diogenes (ed)
London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1854. Presumed First Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Dustjacket. Rare comic treatise on the English maid-of-all-work, comically illustrated by Walter Gillipen (sic). 86 pp, illustrtated with 10 full page wood engravinsg and about 10 vignettes in text. Contents fine, with neat PON dated 1854 top title page. Early - mid 20thC rebound in green quarter leather, marbled boards (and endpapers), pressed gilt titles front board. Corners scuffed and spine a tad faded. Scarce - and hilarious to boot! No auction records available. (Inventory #: 001707)