Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Nabbes, Thomas. Hannibal and Scipio, an historicall tragedy : acted in the yeare 1635. by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at their private house in Drury Lane (London : Printed by Richard Oulton for Charles Greene, and are to be sold at the white Lion in Pauls Church-yard, 1637)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 310. ESTC S113063. Princeton University, Firestone Library 3871.7.343. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Marmion, Shackerley. The antiquary : a comedy, acted by Her Maiesties servants at the Cock-pit (London : Printed by F[elix]. K[ingston]. for I.W. and F[rancis]. E[glesfield]. and are to be sold at the Crane, in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1641)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 312. ESTC R16322. Huntington Library 145156. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Marlowe, Christopher. The famous tragedy of the rich Iew of Malta : as it was playd before the King and Queene, in his Majesties theatre at White-hall, by her Majesties Servants at the Cock-pit (London : Printed by I[ohn]. B[eale]. for Nicholas Vavasour, and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner-Temple, neere the Church, 1633)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 310. ESTC S109853. Harvard University, Houghton Library STC 17412. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. Images of the book may be seen here.
Marlowe, Christopher. The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England : with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer, and also the life and death of Peirs Gauestone, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty fauorite of King Edvvard the second : as it was publikely acted by the right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants (London : Printed [at Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Lame-Hospitall Gate, neere Smithfield, 1622)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 310. ESTC R10165. Harvard University, Houghton Library S120696. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. Images of the book may be seen here.
Lloyd, Lodowick. The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimage of kings and princes : truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns; and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone (London : Printed by E. Alsop, dwelling near the Upper-Pump in Grubstreet, 1659)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 303. ESTC R216862.
British Library G.16582. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 