THE DUTIES OF SERVANTS; A PRACTICAL GUIDE.

A Victorian/Edwardian fascinating guide to the management, training and duties of various domestic servants. A very scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Hardcover in very good condition with a few bumped corners and mildly soiled due to age and handling. Pages are tanned and lightly dust-dulled with a few creases. Binding tight. Free from annotations or inscriptions. Containing twenty chapters: 1- Households: their various scale. 2- Engaging and dismissing servants. 3- A tariff of servants' wages. 4- Servants' meals. 5- Opening the door and announcing visitors. 6- The duties of a house-steward; the duties of a groom of the chambers; the duties of a valet. 7- The butler's duties. 8- Footmen's duties. 9- The duties of a single-handed man-servant and page-boy. 10- The duties of a coachmen and grooms. 11- The housekeeper's duties. 12- The duties of a cook. 13- The duties of kitchen-maids, scullery-maids and stillroom-maids. 14- Housemaid's duties. 15- The duties of a parlour-maid. 16- The duties of a lady's-maid. 17- The duties of a head-nurse and the duties of a nursery-maid. 18- The duties of dairy-maids and laundry-maids. 19- The duties of gardeners and gamekeepers. 20- Concluding remarks.…