Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Taylor, John. A common vvhore vvith all these graces grac’d : shee’s very honest, beautifull and chaste (London : Printed [by M. Flesher] for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold [by E. Wright?] at Christ Church Gate, 1625)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 176. ESTC S124896.
British Library C.30.b.31. Located by Paul Morgan.
Taylor, John. The praise and vertue of a iayle, and iaylers : with the most excellent mysterie, and necessary vse of all sorts of hanging : also a touch at Tyburne for a period, and the authors free leaue to let them be hanged, who are offended at the booke without cause (London : Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland] for R[ichard] B[adger], 1623)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 175. ESTC S118256.
British Library C.30.b.32. Located by Paul Morgan.
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.
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.
Saltonstall, Wye. England’s complaint : against her adjoyning neighbours the Scots : occasioned by the factious Covenanters, in their disloialty to his Sacred Majesty, this present yeare (London : Printed [by Thomas Harper] for Richard Harper at the Bible and Harpe, neare the Hospitall gate in Smithfield, 1640)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 154. STC S110809.
Huntington Library 31854. Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 