Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Marlowe, Christopher and George Chapman. Hero and Leander (London : Imprinted [by F. Kingston] for John Flasket, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the blacke Beare, 1606)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 311. ESTC S102683. British Library C.71.b.32. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Marlowe, Christopher. The famous tragedy of the rich Iew of Malta : as it was playd before the King and Queene, in his Majesties theatre at White-hall, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit (London : Printed by I[ohn]. B[eale]. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner-Temple, neere the Church, 1633)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 310. ESTC S109853. Harvard University, Houghton Library STC 17412. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. Images of the book may be seen here.
Marlowe, Christopher. The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England : with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer, and also the life and death of Peirs Gauestone, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty fauorite of King Edvvard the second : as it was publikely acted by the right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants (London : Printed [at Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Lame-Hospitall Gate, neere Smithfield, 1622)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 310. ESTC R10165. Harvard University, Houghton Library S120696. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. Images of the book may be seen here.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 