SC - Query to the list - "Good Huswifes' Handmaide for the kitchen"

[Elaine Koogler]

I got the Peachy books I have from Acanthus Books...they seemed to have quite a
large selection of them.

Kiri

rcmann4 at earthlink.net wrote:

> And it came to pass on 9 Feb 01, , that Susan Laing wrote:
>
> > - I'd like to enquire from them where the original manuscript is from
> > (Editor mentions that the original is in Gothic script and that it was
> > imprinted at London for Richard Fish) and I can find no other date or
> > bibliographic details for original
>
> "Good Huswifes' Handmaid for Cookerie" appears in the bibilography to "To
> the Queen's Taste" by Lorna Sass.  She lists it with a date of 1588, but
> gives no other information.
>
> I did a web search (using Google, my favorite search engine) and came
> across the following listing for Stuart Peachey.  It was on a page of
> historical re-enactment merchants.
>
> Historical Management Associates Ltd 17c
> equipment,books,furs,feasts, consultancy,lectures 
> Stuart Peachey, 117 Farleigh Road, Backwell. Bristol BS48 3PG
> 01275-463041 
>
> And on another page I found:
> "Syke's Sutlering is very pleased to announce that it has been appointed
> sole agent for Stuart Press books in America - a line of very specialized
> English Civil War studies in a format not unlike those by Partizan Press.
> This line is the brainchild of Stuart Peachy, who, in past years, had
> written a number of titles in Partisan's line."
>
> If the other address proves not to be current, you could probably
> contact Syke's Sutlery and ask them for contact information.
> http://sykesutler.home.att.net/index.htm
>
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
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> mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> now at a new address: rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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