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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 / By an upper servant ... Illustrated with twelve original designs, by Kenny Meadows. Engraved by John Jackson.

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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 / By an upper servant ... Illustrated with twelve original designs, by Kenny Meadows. Engraved by John Jackson.
Author
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Publication
London : E. Wilson, T. and W. Boone, 1843.

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Additional Authors
  • Jackson, John, 1801-1848
  • Jones, John.
  • Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874
  • Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
Description
76 p. incl. front. 1 illus., plates.; 18 cm.
Alternative Title
Directions to servants.
Subject
  • Household employees > Poetry
  • Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Parodies, imitations, etc
Genre/Form
  • Parodies, imitations, etc.
  • Poetry
Note
  • Preface signed: John Jones.
  • Cf. Teerink, H. A bibliography of ... Jonathan Swift. The Hague, 1937, p. 306-307, no. 791.
Indexed In (note)
  • Teerink, H. Jonathan Swift,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library