[Sca-cooks] When was...

[Barbara Benson]

Wow, that's pretty cool! I'm glad I piped up because I would have never
known that otherwise. Yes, that is what the opening of the Maggie Black book
states. I am afraid that I do not understand all of your Acronyms, I get
GHJ=Good Huswives Jewell but the rest is gobbledygook.

What do STC and ESTC,  I guessing NOT Savory Toasted Cheese and Extra Savory
Toasted Cheese ;).

-Serena


> Actually no---
>
> That's incorrect. I presume that you are using or referring to the
> Maggie Black foreword. She's off more than a decade in this case as to
> when the book was first available. This is one of my favorite examples
> to use when talking about why STC or ESTC records are essential when
> doing bibliographic work with 16th century printed texts.
>
> This is one of those odd books where we have a surviving second part
> that dates prior to any surviving first part. We have to presume that
> there really was a GHJ prior to there being a Second Part of the GHJ.
>
> In any case the book by Dawson dates from 1584 according to the
> Stationers' Register. The earliest surviving GHJ is from 1587. The
> Second Part of the GHJ dates from 1585. The work is most often cited as
> being 1596 and 1597 because Oxford has allowed their copy from those
> years to be reproduced and filmed. It's by no means the earliest.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis