Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Breton, Nicholas. The court and country, or, A briefe discourse dialogue-wise set downe betweene a courtier and a country-man : contayning the manner and condition of their liues, with many delectable and pithy sayings worthy obseruation (London : By G. Eld for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible without Newgate, 1618)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 229. ESTC S104725.
Bodleian Library Arch. A e.55. Located by Paul Morgan.
Brewer, Anthony. The love-sick king, an English tragical history : with the life and death of Cartesmunda, the fair nun of Winchester (London : Printed for Rob. Pollard at the Ben. Jonson-head behind the Exchange, and John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-head-Alley, 1655)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 231. ESTC R6509.
Unlocated.
Nixon, Anthony. A straunge foot-post, with a packet full of strange petitions : after a long vacation for a good terme (London : By E[dward] A[llde] dwelling neare Christ-Church, 1613)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 228. ESTC S110172. Is said to lack “all before C1, and the last leaf torn at the upper corner”; identified in Sotheby’s catalogue as a 1590 Nicholas Breton title, but ESTC lists only one 1590 Breton imprint with different title.
Unlocated.
Breton, Nicholas. Poste with a madde packet of letters (London : Printed for John Marriot, [1640?])
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 227. ESTC R30247.
British Library ???. Located by Paul Morgan.
Breton, Nicholas. The scholler and the souldiour : a disputation pithily passed betweene them, the one defending learning, the other martiall discipline (London : Printed by Thomas Creede, 1597)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 226. ESTC S105241. Extracted from Breton’s The Wil of Wit, Wits Will, or Wils Wit, Chuse You Whether.
Newberry Library, Case Y 145 .B745. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 