Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Breton, Nicholas. The scholler and the souldiour : a disputation pithily passed betweene them, the one defending learning, the other martiall discipline (London : Printed by Thomas Creede, 1597)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 226. ESTC S105241. Extracted from Breton’s The Wil of Wit, Wits Will, or Wils Wit, Chuse You Whether.
Newberry Library, Case Y 145 .B745. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
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.
May, Edward. Epigrams diuine and morall (London : Printed by I[ohn] B[eale] for Iohn Groue, and are to be sold at his shop, in Chancery-lane, 1633)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 128. STC S109945.
Huntington Library 62583. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Kennedy, John. The ladies delight, or, The English gentlewomans history of Calanthrop and Lucilla : conspicuously demonstrating the various mutabilities of fortune in their loues, with euery seuerall circumstance of ioyes and crosses, fortunate exploits, and hazardous aduentures, which either of them sustained before thay could attaine the prosperous euent of their wished aimes (London : Printed by Thomas Harper for Michael Sparke, 1631)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 109. STC S109278.
Huntington 60687. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Colman, Walter – La dance machabre, or, Death’s duell (London : Printed by William Stansby, ca. 1632)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 44. STC S108509.
National Library of New Zealand REng COLMN Dance 1632. Located by Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 