Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis (London : Printed by I. H[aviland] and are to be sold by Francis Coules in the Old Baily without Newgate, 1636)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 163. ESTC S104547.
Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22366. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Wolfreston’s inscription is not visible in this book, but the provenance suggests that it is the copy sold in the 1856 sale. For further information, see my guest blog post for the Folger’s Collation blog from June 2018.
Shakespeare, William. The rape of Lucrece (London : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be solde at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleet-street, 1616)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 162. ESTC S106350.
British Library C.34.a.44. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Though Wolfreston’s inscription is not visible in this book, the provenance suggests that it is the copy sold in the 1856 sale for £23 and 10s.
Segar, Francis. The schoole of vertue, and booke of good nurture, teaching children and youth their duties : newly perused, corrected, and amended (London : By M. Flesher for Iohn Wright at the Kings head in the Old Bayley, ca. 1642)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 160. ESTC R183684.
University of Illinois IUA11184. Located by Paul Morgan.
I profiled this book in a blog for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2013.
Sheppard, Samuel. The loves of Amandus and Sophronia, historically narrated : apiece of rare contexture, inriched with many pleasing odes and sonnets, occasioned by the jocular, or tragicall occurrences, hapning in the progresse of the historie (London : Printed by G[artrude]. D[awson]. for Iohn Hardestie, to be sold at the Black Spred-Eagle in Ducklane, 1650)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 154. STC R14694.
Huntington Library 31853. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Saltonstall, Wye. England’s complaint : against her adjoyning neighbours the Scots : occasioned by the factious Covenanters, in their disloialty to his Sacred Majesty, this present yeare (London : Printed [by Thomas Harper] for Richard Harper at the Bible and Harpe, neare the Hospitall gate in Smithfield, 1640)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 154. STC S110809.
Huntington Library 31854. Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 