Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
A helpe to discourse, or, A miscelany of merriment : consisting of wittie, philosophicall and astronomicall questions and answers : as also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests (London : Printed by G. Eld, for Leonard Becket, and are to be sold at his shop in the Temple neare the church, 1621)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 202. ESTC S125903.
University of Illinois MINI00121. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Segar, Francis. The schoole of vertue, and booke of good nurture, teaching children and youth their duties : newly perused, corrected, and amended (London : By M. Flesher for Iohn Wright at the Kings head in the Old Bayley, ca. 1642)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 160. ESTC R183684.
University of Illinois IUA11184. Located by Paul Morgan.
I profiled this book in a blog for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2013.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 