Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Swetnam, Joseph. The arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women, or, The vanity of them, chuse you whether : with a commendation of the wise, vertuous, and honest woman : pleasant for maried-men, profitable for young-men, and hurtfull to none (London : By Richard Cotes, 1645)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 371. ESTC R219682.
British Library C.l36.f.i8. Located by Paul Morgan.
Holland, Henry. Monumenta sepulchraria Sancti Pauli : the monuments, inscriptions, and epitaphs, of kings, nobles, bishops, and others, buried in the Cathedrall Church of St. Paul, London, untill this present yeere of Grace, 1614 : together, with the foundation of the Church, and a catalogu of all the bishops of London, from the beginning vntill this present ([London : Eliot’s Court Press], 1614)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 370. ESTC S120259 or S104143.
Unlocated.
Watts, William. The Swedish intelligencer, the first part : wherein, out of the truest and choysest informations, are the famous actions of that warlike prince historically led along : from his Majesties first entring into the Empire, vntill his great victory over the Generall Tilly, at the Battell of Leipsich (London : Printed [by John Dawson] for Nath: Butter and Nicolas Bourne, 1632)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 370. ESTC S118124, S118048, or S118047.
Unlocated.
Stubbes, Phillip. A chrystall glasse for christian women, containing a most excellent discourse of the godly life and christian death of Mistris Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton upon Trent in Safford-shire [sic], the fourteenth of December : with a most heavenly confessio of the Christian faith, which she made a little before her departure, as also a most wonderfull combat betwixt Satan, and her soule: worthy to be printed in letters of gold, and to be engraven in the table of every Christian heart (London : Printed for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop in Giltspurre street at the signe of the Bible without Newgate, 1646)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 369. ESTC S100019.
British Library 4903.d.17. Located by Paul Morgan.
Strigel, Victorinus. A third proceeding in the harmonie of King Davids harp, that is to say, a godly and learned exposition vpon 17 Psalmes moe [sic] of the princely prophet Dauid, beginning with the 45 and ending with the 61 Psalme (London : Printed by Valentine Sims, 1595)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 368. ESTC S117926.
Unlocated.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 