Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Fletcher, Giles. Licia, or, Poemes of loue, in honour of the admirable and singular vertues of his lady, to the imitation of the best Latin poets, and others : whereunto is added the rising to the crowne of Richard the third ([Cambridge : Printed by John Legat], [1593])
ESTC S105618.
Bodleian Library Arch. G e.31 (1). Located by Paul Morgan.
Bound with Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1593).
Cleveland, John. The character of a London-diurnall: with several select poems ([London] : s.n., 1647)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 251. Several editions in ESTC.
Unlocated. There is Sammelband volume of Cleveland’s works, Poems (1654) and A Character of a Diurnal-Maker (1654), now at the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which bears ownership inscriptions and marginalia from Wolfreston’s eldest son Francis. This volume does not, however, appear to be the same one enumerated in the Sotheby’s auction catalogue.
Wither, George. Iuuenilia : a collection of those poemes which were heretofore imprinted, and written by George Wither (London : Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for John Budge in paul’s Church yard at ye signe of the green dragon, 1622)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 199. ESTC S120366.
Unlocated. Works are all enumerated separately with separate dates in lot, perhaps suggesting that they were broken up individually.
Quarles, Francis. The arte of English poesie, contriued into three bookes : the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament (London : Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angel in Ivy-Lane, 1648)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 337. ESTC R6110. Huntington Library 147373. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Puttenham, George. The arte of English poesie, contriued into three bookes : the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament (London : Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the black-Friers, neere Ludgate, 1589)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 336. ESTC S123166. Harvard University, Houghton Library STC 20519. Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 