Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish tragedie, or, Hieronimo is mad againe : containing the lamentable end of Don Horatio, and Belimperia, with the pittifull death of Hieronimo (London : Printed by W. White, and are to be sold by I. White and T. Langley at their shop ouer against the Sarazens head without New-gate, 1615)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 297. ESTC S1100 or S108140.
Unlocated. Sotheby’s catalogue: “the margins of a few of the last leaves damaged.”
Middleton, Thomas. The widdow a comedie : as it was acted at the private house in Black-Fryers, with great applause, by His late Majesties Servants ( London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 296. ESTC R10704.
Ohio State University, Thompson Library PR2623 .A1 1652. Located by Dr. Rob Carson.
Jonson, Ben. Euery man in his humor : as it hath beene sundry times publickly acted by the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his seruants (London : By S. Stafford for Walter Burre, and are to be sould at his shoppe in Paules Church-yarde, 1601)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 296. ESTC S109361.
Unlocated. Damaged. Said to be the William Augustus White copy.
Porter, Henry. The pleasant historie of the two angrie women of Abington, with the humorous mirthe of Dick Coomes and Nicholas Prouerbes, two seruingmen : as it was lately playde by the right Honorable the Earle of Nottinghamn, Lord high Admirall, his seruants (London : By Edward Allde for Ioseph Hunt, and William Ferbrand, and are to be solde at the corner of Colman-streete, neere Loathburie, 1599)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 294. ESTC S110461 or S110459.
Unlocated. Last leaf is said to be imperfect.
Heywood, Thomas and William Rowley. Fortune by land and sea : a tragi-comedy, as it was acted with great applause by the Queens servants (London : Printed for John Sweeting at the Angel in Popes-head Alley, and Robert Pollard at the Ben Johnson’s Head behind the Exchange, 1655)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 291. ESTC R10165. Princeton University, Firestone Library Taylor 17th-312. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. Images of the book may be seen here and here.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 