Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Nixon, Anthony. A straunge foot-post, with a packet full of strange petitions : after a long vacation for a good terme (London : By E[dward] A[llde] dwelling neare Christ-Church, 1613)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 228. ESTC S110172. Is said to lack “all before C1, and the last leaf torn at the upper corner”; identified in Sotheby’s catalogue as a 1590 Nicholas Breton title, but ESTC lists only one 1590 Breton imprint with different title.
Unlocated.
Bolton, Robert. A discourse about the state of true happinesse : deliuered in certaine sermons in Oxford, and at Pauls Crosse (London : By Felix Kyngston, for Edmund Weauer, and are to be sold at his shop, at the great North-gate of Pauls Church, 1612)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 225. ESTC S116477.
Unlocated.
Wither, George. Abuses stript, and whipt, or, Satirical essaies, diuided into two bookes (London : Printed by G. Eld, for Francis Burton, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard, at the signe of the Green-Dragon, 1643)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 198. ESTC S113272, S113274, S120205, S123333, or S120210.
Unlocated. Said to be “in the old vellum wrapper.”
Taylor, John. A kicksey winsey, or, A lerry come-twang : wherein Iohn Taylor hath satyrically suited 800 of his bad debters, that will not pay him for his returne of his iourney from Scotland (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Mathew Walbanck, dwelling at Grayes Inne Gate, 1619)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 173. ESTC S103249.
British Library C.30.b.21. Located by Paul Morgan.
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.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 