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.
Parry, William. A new and large discourse of the trauels of sir Anthony Sherley Knight, by sea, and ouer land, to the Persian Empire : wherein are related many straunge and wonderfull accidents : and also, the description and conditions of those countries and people he passed by: with his returne into Christendome (London : Printed by Valentine Simmes for Felix Norton, 1601)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 360. ESTC S101167.
Unlocated.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of King Richard the Third (London, 1602).
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 358.
ESTC S111111.
Dartmouth Hickmott 27. The title page and end leaf are in facsimile. Located by Jay Satterfield and Sarah Lindenbaum.
Shakespeare, William. The Life and Death of King Richard the Second (London, ????)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 358.
Unlocated. This copy lacks the title page, which may be in facsimile, and “two of the leaves [are] torn,” according to the 1856 auction catalogue. Imprint is unknown and title is presumably taken from the running or caption title.
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.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 