Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Weever, John. The mirror of martyrs, or, The life and death of that thrice valiant capitaine, and most godly martyre Sir Iohn Old-castle knight Lord Cobham (London : Printed by V[alentine] S[immes] for William Wood, 1639)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 193. ESTC S111646.
Huntington Library 81677. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
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.
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.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 