Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
A Description of Loue : With Certaine Epigrams, Elegies, and Sonnets, and Also Mast. Iohnsons Answere to Master Withers : With the Crie of Ludgate, and the Song of the Beggar (London : Printed by Miles Flesher, 1638)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 123. ESTC S116945.
Unlocated, with copies at the Bodleian, Houghton Library, and Library of Congress bearing no visible marks of ownership.
Whately, William. The redemption of time, or, A sermon containing very good remedies for them that have mis spent their time : shewing how they should redeeme it comfortably (London : Printed for Beniamin Fisher, and are to bee sold at his shop in Aldersgate-street, at the signe of the Talbot, 1634)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 382. ESTC S103598.
Unlocated.
Watts, William. The Swedish intelligencer, the first part : wherein, out of the truest and choysest informations, are the famous actions of that warlike prince historically led along : from his Majesties first entring into the Empire, vntill his great victory over the Generall Tilly, at the Battell of Leipsich (London : Printed [by John Dawson] for Nath: Butter and Nicolas Bourne, 1632)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 370. ESTC S118124, S118048, or S118047.
Unlocated.
Shirley, James. The Dukes mistris : as it was presented by her Majesties Servants, at the private house in Drury-Lane (London : Printed by John Norton, for William Cooke, 1638)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 363. ESTC S100019.
Huntington Library 69448. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Shirley, James. Hide Parke : a comedie, as it vvas presented by her Majesties Servants, at the private house in Drury Lane (London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Andrew Crooke, and William Cooke, 1637)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 363. ESTC S117338.
Huntington Library 69406. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 