Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Sharpe, Lewis. The noble stranger : as it was acted at the Private House in Salisbury Court, by her Maiesties Servants (London : By I[ohn]. O[kes]. for Iames Becket, and are to be sold at his shop at the Inner Temple gate, in Fleet-street, 1640)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 361. ESTC S117222.
Columbia University Butler Library B823 Sh25. Located on 6 January, 2021 by Jane R. Siegel.
The famous victories of Henry the fifth : containing the honourable Battell of Agincourt : as it was acted by the Kinges Maiesties seruants (London : Imprinted by Barnard Alsop, dwelling in Garter place in Barbican, 1617)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 359. ESTC S4698.
British Library C.34.l.10. Located by Paul Morgan.
Shakespeare, William. The tragoedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice : as it hath beene divers times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Majesties Servants (London : Printed for William Leak at the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1655)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 357. ESTC R17082.
Penn Libraries, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Furness EC Sh155.622oc. Located by Paul Morgan. An image of the book may be seen here.
Shakespeare, William. M. William Shake-speare, his true chronicle history of the life and death of King Lear, and his three daughters : with the unfortunat life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Glocester, and his sullen assumed humour of Tom of Bedlam. As it was plaid before the Kings Maiesty at Whit-Hall, upon S. Stephens night, in Christmas hollldaies [sic] : by his Maiesties Servants, playing vsually at the Globe on the Bank-side (London : Printed by Jane Bell, and are to be sold at the east-end of Christ-Church, 1655)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 356. ESTC R17679.
British Library C.34.k.54. Located by Paul Morgan.
Shakespeare, William. The most excellent and lamentable tragedie of Romeo and Juliet : as it hath been sundry times publikely acted by the Kings Majesties Servants at the Globe ( London : Printed by R. Young for John Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, under the Dyall, 1637)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 355. ESTC S111244.
The Folger Library STC 22326 copy 4. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. Images of the book may be seen here and my guest blog post for the Folger’s Collation blog about the book’s identification can be read here.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 