Tag: Literature

A–C, Unlocated

Arthur of Little Britaine ([1582])

Arthur of little Britaine : the history of the most noble and valyant knight, Arthur of little Britaine (London : By Thomas East, [1582])

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 215. S108343. 

Unlocated. Said to be “much damaged and imperfect.” The imperfect copy at The Folger Shakespeare Library may have been on the book market prior to 1856, which would mean that it is not the Wolfreston copy. 

Located, P–S

Sheppard – The Loves of Amandus and Sophronia (1650)

Sheppard, Samuel. The loves of Amandus and Sophronia, historically narrated : apiece of rare contexture, inriched with many pleasing odes and sonnets, occasioned by the jocular, or tragicall occurrences, hapning in the progresse of the historie (London : Printed by G[artrude]. D[awson]. for Iohn Hardestie, to be sold at the Black Spred-Eagle in Ducklane, 1650)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 154. STC R14694.

Huntington Library 31853. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.

G–I, Located

Homer – Batrachomyomachia, or, The Wonderfull and Bloudy Battell Betweene Frogs and Mice (1634)

Homer (attributed). Translated by William Fowldes. Batrachomyomachia, or, The wonderfull and bloudy battell betweene frogs and mice. The occasion of their falling out : their preparation, munition, and resolution for the warres : the severall combats of every person of worth, with many other memorable accidents. Interlaced with divers pithy and morall sentences, no lesse pleasant to be read, then profitable to be observed (London : Printed by Thomas Harper, for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop in Holborne, at Chancery lane end, 1634)

Sotheby’s 1856 lot 71. ESTC S122590.

British Library 11315.a.8. Located by Paul Morgan.