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.
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.
The batchelars banquet, or, A banquet for batchelars : wherein is prepared sundry daintie dishes to furnish their table, curiously drest, and seriously serued in : pleasantly discoursing the variable humours of women, their quicknesse of wittes, and vnsearchable deceits (London : Printed by T[homas] C[reede and others] and are to be solde by T. P[avier], 1603)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 219. ESTC S105241.
Harvard University, Houghton Library STC 6476.2. Located by Paul Morgan.
Basse, William. Sword and buckler, or, Seruing-mans defence (London : Imprinted [by Felix Kingston] for M. L[ownes] and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Churchyard, 1602)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 218. ESTC S104511.
British Library General Reference Collection Huth.65. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 