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[004896] An Upper Servant; [Jones, John] 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. ill. Meadows, Kenny. London: Effingham Wilson, 1843. First Edition. 12mo. Hardback. Fair. [5], 6-76pp, plates. Original blind stamped blue / green cloth, upper cover with gilt title and central vignette

Upper cover and spine faded and soiled, especially to edges, rubbed to extremities, corners gently bumped. Cracked between front free endpaper and first illustration, title browned, text lightly browned, the odd small spot of foxing, but generally fairly clean

With twelve full page illustrations of various servants by Kenny Meadows

A poetic parody of Swift

Five locations in Library Hub

Attar 390.1