Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Taylor, John. A kicksey winsey, or, A lerry come-twang : wherein Iohn Taylor hath satyrically suited 800 of his bad debters, that will not pay him for his returne of his iourney from Scotland (London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Mathew Walbanck, dwelling at Grayes Inne Gate, 1619)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 173. ESTC S103249.
British Library C.30.b.21. Located by Paul Morgan.
Taylor, John. The number and names of all the kings of England and Scotland, from the beginning of their governments to this present : as also how long each of them reigned, how many of them came to untimely ends, either by imprisonments, banishments, famine, killing of themselves, poyson, drowning, beheading, falling from horses, slaine in battells, murthered, or otherwise (London : s.n. , 1649)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 172. ESTC R10068.
Huntington 148050. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis (London : Printed by I. H[aviland] and are to be sold by Francis Coules in the Old Baily without Newgate, 1636)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 163. ESTC S104547.
Folger Shakespeare Library STC 22366. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Wolfreston’s inscription is not visible in this book, but the provenance suggests that it is the copy sold in the 1856 sale. For further information, see my guest blog post for the Folger’s Collation blog from June 2018.
Shakespeare, William. The rape of Lucrece (London : Printed by T[homas] S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be solde at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleet-street, 1616)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 162. ESTC S106350.
British Library C.34.a.44. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Though Wolfreston’s inscription is not visible in this book, the provenance suggests that it is the copy sold in the 1856 sale for £23 and 10s.
Segar, Francis. The schoole of vertue, and booke of good nurture, teaching children and youth their duties : newly perused, corrected, and amended (London : By M. Flesher for Iohn Wright at the Kings head in the Old Bayley, ca. 1642)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 160. ESTC R183684.
University of Illinois IUA11184. Located by Paul Morgan.
I profiled this book in a blog for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2013.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 