Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
The batchelars banquet, or, A banquet for batchelars : wherein is prepared sundry daintie dishes to furnish their table, curiously drest, and seriously serued in : pleasantly discoursing the variable humours of women, their quicknesse of wittes, and vnsearchable deceits (London : Printed by T[homas] C[reede and others] and are to be solde by T. P[avier], 1603)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 219. ESTC S105241.
Harvard University, Houghton Library STC 6476.2. Located by Paul Morgan.
Basse, William. Sword and buckler, or, Seruing-mans defence (London : Imprinted [by Felix Kingston] for M. L[ownes] and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Churchyard, 1602)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 218. ESTC S104511.
British Library General Reference Collection Huth.65. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Amsterdam and her other Hollander sisters put out to sea, by Van Trump, Van Dunck, & Van Dumpe, or, A true description of those so called Hoghens Mogens, set out to the life, with the manners of their quagmire bog, and other speciall varieties touching their unmannerly manners, and base ingratitude to our English nation, from their shels of beggery to their now present pride (London : Printed for Richard Harper, in Smithfield, near the Hospitall Gate, 1652)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 214. ESTC R16141.
Koninklijke Bibliotheek KW 344 H 26. Located by Paul Morgan.
Jeninges, Edward. The notable hystory of two faithfull louers named Alfagus anb [sic] Archelaus : whearein is declared the true fygure of amytie and freyndshyp (London : In Fleete-streat beneath the Conduyt at the sygne of S. John Euangelist, by Thomas Colwell, 1574)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 211. ESTC S109147.
Huntington Library 31483. Located by Paul Morgan.
J.W. Englands summons, or, Londons alarum from heaven : with a caveat to all cities, towns, counties, and families in the same (London : Printed for W. Gilbertson, at the sign of the Bible in Giltspur-street, 1650)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 206. ESTC R176716.
British Library Cup.408.d.8(12). Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 