Servants.- Haywood (Eliza) A New Present for a Servant-Maid...The Whole Art of Cookery, Pickling, Preserving &c., first edition, engraved frontispiece, this with a couple of closed tears and neatly silked verso, final f. (a table of expenses & wages) torn and repaired with loss, D8 neat tear within text without loss, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked in modern blind-stamped and gilt calf in compartments and with double brown leather labels, covers little stained and scuffed, [Bitting p.220; Cagle 733; Maclean p.67; Simon BG 828], 8vo, Printed for G. Pearch, No. 12, Cheapside; and H. Gardner, opposite St. Clement’s Church, in the Strand, 1771.*** Rare at auction in any condition. Of the few copies that have appeared at auction over the last decades the majority either lacked the frontispiece or had some textual loss, or indeed both. While this is the first appearance of this title it owes much to her A Present for a Servant-Maid: or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem, of 1743. Haywood (c.1693-1756) was an English writer (particularly novels), actor and publisher.