Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Porter, Henry. The pleasant historie of the two angrie women of Abington, with the humorous mirthe of Dick Coomes and Nicholas Prouerbes, two seruingmen : as it was lately playde by the right Honorable the Earle of Nottinghamn, Lord high Admirall, his seruants (London : By Edward Allde for Ioseph Hunt, and William Ferbrand, and are to be solde at the corner of Colman-streete, neere Loathburie, 1599)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 294. ESTC S110461 or S110459.
Unlocated. Last leaf is said to be imperfect.
Hic mulier, or, The man-woman (London : Printed by Eliot’s Court Press, 1620)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 292. ESTC S92970, S106167, or S92971.
Unlocated. Last leaf is said to be imperfect.
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.
Anatomy of a womans tongue, divided into five parts : a medicine, a poyson, a serpent, fire, and thunder : whereunto is added diverse new epigrams never before printed with many other delightsome novelties (London : Printed for Richard Harper, 1658)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 205. ESTC R506758.
Morgan Library W 01 A. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
E.F. [The embleme of a vertuous woman] (London? : s.n., 1650)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 204. ESTC R5845.
Huntington 123417. Located by Sarah Lindenbaum.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 