[Sca-cooks] Two questions
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Fri Sep 11 18:36:00 PDT 2009
EEBO is described here
http://eebo.chadwyck.com/marketing/about.htm
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/eebo.shtml
Talk to an academic research librarian at your nearest college or
university
and ask if you can get access to EEBO if you come in person to the
library. Be sure and
inquire about the best way to make a copy. Downloaded copies can be
expensive
if you aren't a student.
Johnnae
On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Johnna Holloway wrote:
>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Lynn wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Oh clever and studied ones....I have two questions ...
>> (1) In the Florilegium there is a discussion about period
>> shortbread from John Partidge's The Widowes Treasure, 1585. I do
>> not have the book (would like to know where to get it).
>
> Numerous editions (1582-1655) of the Widowes Treasure have been
> microfilmed and are available in that format.
> The author is John Partridge. Note spelling!
>
> Those with academic access or university connections may be able to
> view a copy through Early English Books Online.
> Check with your nearest college or academic library for instructions
> and availability. (The service is very very expensive
> and many libraries cannot afford to provide access. In that case,
> ask if the library has Early English Books I on microfilm.
> You can always go drop quarters and print off a copy from the
> microfilm. Expensive in time, but a copy is a copy.)
>
> Partridge has never been that popular an author and facsimiles and
> reprints of his works are almost non-existent. Another of his works
> A Treasury of Hidden Secrets: A 17th-century Housewives' Handbook of
> Cookery and Medicine was released by Rhwymbooks in 2002. It's
> already OP and out of stock.
>
> We can buy Plat and Markham. We can't easily buy Partridge. Sorry.
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