Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Erasmus. Vtile-dulce, or, Trueths libertie : seuen wittie-wise dialogues, full of delight, and fitte for vse : verie appliable to these times, but seasonable for all ages, till Roomes idolatrie, and womens delicacie, be reformed (London : Printed [by V. Simmes] for Nicholas Ling, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Church-yard in Fleete-streete, 1606)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 238. ESTC S114479 .
Bodleian Library Mal. 982. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
Brome, Richard. The antipodes : a comedie, acted in the yeare 1638 by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street (London : Printed by I. Okes, for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shops in Kings-street at the signe of the Goat, and in Westminster-hall, 1640)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 233. ESTC S106712 .
Firestone Library, Princeton University Ex 3639.9.312 c.1. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum. For images, see: https://twitter.com/wolfrestonward/status/908749517817819137
Brewer, Thomas. A knot of fooles : but, fooles, or knaves, or both, I care not, here they are; come laugh and spare not (London : For Francis Grove, and are to be sold at his shop on Snow-hil near the Sarazens Head with-out New-gate, 1658)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 232. ESTC R20108.
Huntington Library 112941. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Breton, Nicholas. The scholler and the souldiour : a disputation pithily passed betweene them, the one defending learning, the other martiall discipline (London : Printed by Thomas Creede, 1597)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 226. ESTC S105241. Extracted from Breton’s The Wil of Wit, Wits Will, or Wils Wit, Chuse You Whether.
Newberry Library, Case Y 145 .B745. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum and Lori Humphrey Newcomb.
The batchelars banquet, or, A banquet for batchelars : wherein is prepared sundry daintie dishes to furnish their table, curiously drest, and seriously serued in : pleasantly discoursing the variable humours of women, their quicknesse of wittes, and vnsearchable deceits (London : Printed by T[homas] C[reede and others] and are to be solde by T. P[avier], 1603)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 219. ESTC S105241.
Harvard University, Houghton Library STC 6476.2. Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 