Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Massinger, Philip. The great Duke of Florence : a comicall historie : as it hath beene often presented with good allowance by her Maties Servants at the Phoenix in Drurie Lane (London : Printed [by Miles Flesher] for John Marriot, 1636)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 313. ESTC S112420.
Unlocated.
Massinger, Philip. The Emperour of the East : a tragae-comedie : the scaene Constantinople : as it hath bene diuers times acted, at the Black-friers, and Globe play-houses, by the Kings Maiesties Seruants (London : Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, 1632)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 313. ESTC S112418.
Unlocated.
Massinger, Philip. The maid of honour : as it hath beene often presented with good allowance at the Phoenix in Drvrie-Lane, by the Queenes Majesties Servants (London : Printed by I[ohn]. B[eale]. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 313. ESTC S112421 or S94146.
Unlocated. Missing title page.
Manwood, John. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes, and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art : as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke (London : Printed by [Adam Islip? for] Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 308. ESTC S111993.
Unlocated. Last leaf of index lacking.
Lot 307 in the Sotheby’s sale was comprised of “a parcel” of manuscripts. Only two are named:
1. “Speculum Christianae” which is “on vellum” and “imperfect at the end.”
2. A “Common Place Book, Containing Religious Extracts, &c.; with old Sermons.”
Both manuscripts were sold to bookseller Joseph Lilly for two shillings.
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 307.
Unlocated.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 