Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Chapman, George. Caesar and Pompey : a Roman tragedy, declaring their vvarres, out of whose euents is euicted this proposition : only a iust man is a freeman (London : Printed by Thomas Harper, and are to be sold by Godfrey Emondson, and Thomas Alchorne, 1631)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 239. ESTC S107722.
University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center Pforz 146. Located by Paul Morgan.
Erasmus. Vtile-dulce, or, Trueths libertie : seuen wittie-wise dialogues, full of delight, and fitte for vse : verie appliable to these times, but seasonable for all ages, till Roomes idolatrie, and womens delicacie, be reformed (London : Printed [by V. Simmes] for Nicholas Ling, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard in Fleete-streete, 1606)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 238. ESTC S114479 .
Bodleian Library Mal. 982. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Brome, Richard. The antipodes : a comedie, acted in the yeare 1638 by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street (London : Printed by I. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-hall, 1640)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 233. ESTC S106712 .
Firestone Library, Princeton University Ex 3639.9.312 c.1. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. For images, see: https://twitter.com/wolfrestonward/status/908749517817819137
Brewer, Thomas. A knot of fooles : but, fooles, or knaves, or both, I care not, here they are; come laugh and spare not (London : For Francis Grove, and are to be sold at his shop on Snow-hil near the Sarazens Head with-out New-gate, 1658)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 232. ESTC R20108.
Huntington Library 112941. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Shirley, James. Love will finde out the way : an excellent comedy (London : Printed by Ja: Cottrel, for Samuel Speed, at the signe of the Printing-Press in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1661)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 231. ESTC R10871. In September 2017, Harry Ransom Center curator Aaron T. Pratt discovered that Wolfreston annotated the book “i doe not lik this.”
University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center PFORZ 929 PFZ. Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 