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"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": September 2014
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"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": September 2014

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The Collation

What manner of thing might this be? As always, leave your guesses and questions in the comments below, and come back later in the week for the reveal! Update (8 September): The reveal is now up: http://collation.folger.edu/2014/09/constructing-volvelles/

Pop Shakespeare's typography
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Pop Shakespeare's typography

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Sarah Werner

If you’ve been spending any time on social media recently, you’re likely to have come across Pop Sonnets, a new Tumblr that provides, in their words, “Old twists on new tunes, every Thursday.” Here, for instance, is their deft rewriting…

In memoriam: Nadia Seiler
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In memoriam: Nadia Seiler

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The Collation

“It’s satisfying to put the pieces of a puzzle together when we can, but it’s just as exciting to think of the undiscovered treasures that might be hiding in this collection.”—Nadia Seiler Nadia Seiler (1978-2014) To be a great cataloger…

Free cultural works! Come get your free cultural works!
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Free cultural works! Come get your free cultural works!

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Erin Blake

It’s official: pictures in the Folger’s Digital Image Collection are now licensed CC BY-SA! That is, they can be used under a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International License, one of the two Creative Commons licenses “approved for free cultural works.” That’s almost…

Miracles lately vvrovght: the use of “vv” for “w” in 17th-century titles
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Miracles lately vvrovght: the use of “vv” for “w” in 17th-century titles

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Goran Proot

In earlier posts I surveyed the use of “v” for “u” in titles and imprints of books printed in the Southern Netherlands. In both cases, this habit clearly faded out in the course of the seventeenth century. These findings, in…

10mo!
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10mo!

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Sarah Werner

Sometimes books surprise us, and not always for the reasons we expect. Is there something unusual about the book below? Is is maybe a bit more narrowly oblong than usual? an oddly shaped book Two years ago, I took Rare…

Something wiki this way comes, or, Welcome to Folgerpedia!
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Something wiki this way comes, or, Welcome to Folgerpedia!

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The Collation

For the past seven months, a small team of dedicated colleagues here at the Folger have been working very hard to bring you a new online, interactive tool that we hope will inspire collaboration and serve the Folger community. With…

Interiority and Jane Porter’s pocket diary
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Interiority and Jane Porter’s pocket diary

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Julie Park

A guest post by Julie Park It’s been a critical commonplace after Ian Watt’s The Rise of the Novel to view the novel as the first literary form to represent psychological individuality in the context of everyday life. My research,…

Print or manuscript? Civilité type in early modern England
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Print or manuscript? Civilité type in early modern England

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Heather Wolfe

Have you ever received a fundraising letter in the mail that looks handwritten, or has a “handwritten” postscript or post-it note? This is an attempt, of course, to make the letter feel more personal. The recipient of the request is supposed to be…

So how do you find symbols in signature marks?
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So how do you find symbols in signature marks?

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Erin Blake Sarah Werner

Sarah: In my last post, I showed some examples of books that use symbols in signature marks. But how did I find these books and how might you find more examples? It’s one thing to search for books printed in…

The symbols of signature marks
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The symbols of signature marks

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Sarah Werner

I’ve written before about what sort of information we can learn from studying signature marks, and Goran wrote recently about the use of Latin abbreviations to indicate the gathering. So I thought the time has come to look at some of the…

Identifying a leather bookplate
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Identifying a leather bookplate

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Sarah Werner

As became clear in the robust conversation around this month’s crocodile mystery, what we’re looking at is a leather bookplate—a circular, good-tooled leather bookplate stamped with the initials “E. H.” and a rose. While the object itself might have been…

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