Author: ROBERTS, ROBERT
Title: The house servant's directory, or, A monitor for private families / Robert Roberts; introduction by Jessica Harris
Description: Kansas City. Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing. LLC 2013. 1st facsimile edition. An exceptional copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Literally as new. Description; viii. 180 pages; 23 cm. Gilt page edges with brown ribbon bookmark. Facsimile reprint with new introduction. Originally published: Boston: Munroe & Francis. 1827. Notes; 'Reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS). Worcester. Massachusetts'--Preliminary page. Series; American antiquarian cookbook collection. Summary; 'In 1827. African American Robert Roberts penned The house servant's directory. a manual for house servants. which offers a remarkable glimpse into the upstairs/downstairs world of America's early nineteeth-century elite.'--Introduction. Subjects; Household employees--United States--Handbooks. manuals. etc. Formulas. recipes. etc.--United States. Weight in Kg appr.:

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