The whole duty of a woman, or, A guide to the female sex, from the age ofsixteen to sixty, &c. : being directions, how women of all qualities andconditions, ought to behave themselves in the various circumstances ofthis life, for their obtaining not only present but future happiness ... :also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery with the whole art ofcookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. / written by a Lady

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... R. Ware ... and James Hodges, [1735] The title page lists the contents as follows: "I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral vertues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance, and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoid the opposite vices -- II. The duty of virgins directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoid, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state, with the whole art of love -- III. The whole duty of a wife -- IV. The whole duty of a widow, & ... " (WOMEN) Eighth edition. 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece. [6], 167, [1, ad] pp. Later cloth. Frontispiece cut down and mounted on new leaf, lower corner of title repaired with loss of a few letters in imprint, date supplied in ink contemporary hand Uncommon. NLM Eighteenth Century Books, p. 488; Maclean p. 150; Cagle, Matter of Taste 1052 (for 1695 first ed.); OCLC: 12081676 (4 locations)

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