| Exhibition
The Shakespeare Gallery
Ongoing, Monday through Saturday 10am–5pm
Folger Great Hall
Explore the Folger through our visitor film, digitally leaf through a First Folio with our touchscreen kiosk, and explore our collection through copies of Infinite Variety.
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Tickets:
FREE
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Extending the Book: The Art of Extra–Illustration
Ongoing, Monday through Saturday 10am–5pm
Folger Great Hall
Extra-illustration came to prominence after the 1769 publication of James Granger’s Biographical history of England. Granger’s un-illustrated book combined thumbnail biographies with lists of portraits, and readers began to supplement their copies with actual examples of the portraits. The practice spread to other texts, and the great era of extra-illustration, or “grangerizing,” began. At its most extreme, a single volume could grow to dozens.
From the beginning, extra-illustrators had to defend their “exquisite handicraft” (in the words of an 1890 proponent) against accusations of “breaking up a good book to illustrate a worse one” (in the words of an 1892 critic). This exhibition examines the art and the practice of extra-illustration, from crudely altered books to beautiful new creations.
Tickets:
FREE
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| Exhibition
Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550–1700
September 18, 2009–January 9, 2010 10am–5pm
Monday–Saturday
Folger Great Hall
Curators: Timothy Billings, with Jim Kuhn
Alexander Huang, video curator
Early modern Europeans imagined China as a land of wonder, of riches, and of enormous opportunity. Rare books and maps from the Folger collection, along with items from the Library of Congress and the Walters Arts Museum, capture England's dawning cultural awareness and admiration of things Chinese.
Tickets:
FREE
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| Lectures
Paul Collins
November 16, 2009 7:30pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Paul Collins reads from his new book, The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World
Tickets:
$12
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