Tag: 1640s

Located, P–S

Swetnam – The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Cnconstant Women, or, The Vanity of Them, Chuse You Whether (1645)

Swetnam, Joseph. The arraignment of lewd, idle, froward, and unconstant women, or, The vanity of them, chuse you whether : with a commendation of the wise, vertuous, and honest woman : pleasant for maried-men, profitable for young-men, and hurtfull to none (London : By Richard Cotes, 1645)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 371. ESTC R219682.

British Library C.l36.f.i8. Located by Paul Morgan.

Image is from the Bodleian Library’s copy.
Located, P–S

Stubbes – A Chrystall Glasse for Christian Women (1646)

Stubbes, Phillip. A chrystall glasse for christian women, containing a most excellent discourse of the godly life and christian death of Mistris Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton upon Trent in Safford-shire [sic], the fourteenth of December : with a most heavenly confessio of the Christian faith, which she made a little before her departure, as also a most wonderfull combat betwixt Satan, and her soule: worthy to be printed in letters of gold, and to be engraven in the table of every Christian heart (London : Printed for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop in Giltspurre street at the signe of the Bible without Newgate, 1646)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 369. ESTC S100019.

British Library 4903.d.17. Located by Paul Morgan.

Located, P–S

Shirley – A Pastorall Called the Arcadia (1640)

Shirley, James. A pastorall called the Arcadia : acted by her Majesties Servants at the Phænix [sic] in Drury Lane ( London : Printed by J[ohn] D[awson] for Iohn Williams, and F. Eglesfeild and are to be sould at the signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard, 1640)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 363. ESTC S117369.

Huntington Library 69415. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.