Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
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.
Basse, William. Sword and buckler, or, Seruing-mans defence (London : Imprinted [by Felix Kingston] for M. L[ownes] and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstons Churchyard, 1602)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 218. ESTC S104511.
British Library General Reference Collection Huth.65. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Jeninges, Edward. The notable hystory of two faithfull louers named Alfagus anb [sic] Archelaus : whearein is declared the true fygure of amytie and freyndshyp (London : In Fleete-streat beneath the Conduyt at the sygne of S. John Euangelist, by Thomas Colwell, 1574)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 211. ESTC S109147.
Huntington Library 31483. Located by Paul Morgan.
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 booke of martyrs : wherein are set downe the names of such martyrs as suffered persecution, and laid downe theire lives for witnesse-bearing unto the Gospell of Christ Jesus (London : By I[ohn] B[eale], 1639)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 180. ESTC S118187.
Huntington Library 69656. Located by Paul Morgan.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 