This is my 3rd moderated comment, so it’s not ensured to reach you (but nevertheless…):

The Oxford doc also references BM STC French (but only up to 1700), which is why I believe that your sojourn should be continued via McGill, whose staff can well direct you towards the supplements.

The Oxford doc also references BM STC French (but only up to 1700), which is why I believe that your sojourn should be continued via McGill, whose staff can well direct you.

Because my information is being “moderated”, my comments are not being read “in real time”.

I directed you to the Oxford doc as a lead-in to the HPB and the ETSC French databases. Beyond that is the ARTFL exploration, accessible via McGill, along with its comprehensive archives of 18th-century publishers and printers. The strength of McGill’s Rare Books and Special Coolections is its 18th-century data. ARTFL is accessible via McGill.

And what is that exchange about above? Can’t we all play nicely?

The Bodleian link directs the requester to the Hand Press Books database.

More than 330 institutions subscribe to the ARTFL database; I would expect the requester to be savvy enough to submit an ILL request. Why you would reference the philogic beta release link while bypassing the preceding SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION tab is questionable.

Lastly, I referenced – with specificity – McGill’s French collection – distinguished for its 18th century holdings within its Rare Books and Special Collections. Here, again, I would expect the researcher to be savvy enough to take it from there, even if you weren’t.

Pardon me, now, for not further indulging your ineptitude; I shan’t pursue this with you. I’m off to fold a protein.

Besides which, I don’t work for free.

and quickly followed with the intended link. It is a collaborative effort. PremproPosse= anonymous jackass? honto ni.

First, let me say that I don’t take offense at your slight, but I do take offense at your reference work. While I was off by a span of a hundred years give or take, you gave him (assuming gender, hamilton, sorry) links that:
OFFER NOTHING he’s looking for (http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/60573/RareBks.pdf)
Restrict access to subscription users only (http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3t?dbname=frantext0509&word=cow&CONJUNCT=PHRASE&DISTANCE=2&PROXY=or+fewer&OUTPUT=conc&author=&title=&date=&genre=&sortorder=date%2C+author&DFPERIOD=1&POLESPAN=5&THMPRTLIMIT=1&KWSS=1&KWSSPRLIM=500&trsortorder=author%2C+title)

and

Tells him that there’s a university that has a series of special collections (http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-using/policies/collection/french/)

Hamilton, I hope that’s something you WERE looking for,or have a subscription to, and I hope you have an idea of how to use it, but I call that a REFERENCE FAIL. (equal to mine, as you pointed out.

However, I will not mock your reference skills as equivilant to pissing desperate cows or somesuch nonsense.