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Is that bleed-through?
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Is that bleed-through?

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Sarah Werner

In some ways, this image is a perfectly ordinary one (well, ordinary if it’s possible to think of an autograph manuscript of Mary Wroth’s important sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus  as ordinary): Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (fol. 65r) Heather Wolfe…

Margents and All: Thomas Milles between manuscript and print
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Margents and All: Thomas Milles between manuscript and print

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Bill Sherman Heather Wolfe

Co-written by Heather Wolfe and Bill Sherman Thomas Milles’s motto, inscribed at the bottom of the title page in Columbia University’s copy of An Out-Port-Customers Accompt (STC 17935), as reproduced on EEBO. It appears in print on many of his…

Q & A: Eric Johnson, Director of Digital Access
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Q & A: Eric Johnson, Director of Digital Access

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The Collation

Eric Johnson is the Folger’s new Director of Digital Access, heading the new Digital Media and Publications division. He has developed successful projects and programs for U.S. Department of State, the Washington Times, the World Bank, the state of Georgia,…

Measuring Hamlet and the golden section
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Measuring Hamlet and the golden section

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Goran Proot

It is an understatement to say that the layout of most books doesn’t show much daring, and that academic publications are among the most dull in this respect. But solid content and tasteful form do not necessarily exclude each other,…

Sizing books up
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Sizing books up

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Sarah Werner

A couple of weeks back I posted some images with the aim of destabilizing some of our assumptions about what early modern texts look like. In the mix was an image of a “big” book followed by a “tiny” one.…

It's the details thnt matter
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It's the details thnt matter

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Sarah Werner

There were two odd things happening in last week’s crocodile mystery, which featured an opening from the first English edition of Nicolàs Monardes’s Joyfull newes out of the newe founde worlde (STC 18005). The first was the easier to spot, assuming you…

"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": July 2013
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"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?": July 2013

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The Collation

What shall we make of this? July crocodile (click to embiggen) And what can we learn from it? Leave your thoughts in the comments below and then come back next week for the reveal!

Noticing the weirdness of texts
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Noticing the weirdness of texts

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Sarah Werner

Sometimes it’s fun just to look at books without worrying what they are and who printed them and what the text says. And sometimes, when you do that, you notice all sorts of ways in which they’re weird—they mix manuscript…

Proof prints, part two; or, Proofs and proofiness
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Proof prints, part two; or, Proofs and proofiness

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Erin Blake

Last month’s post from me (your friendly neighborhood art historian) looked at trial proofs and progressive proofs (see Proof prints, part one). As promised, here’s a look at a third kind of proof in printmaking: proofs that aren’t really “proofs” as…

The Single Vine Leaf, aka the "Aldine Leaf"
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The Single Vine Leaf, aka the "Aldine Leaf"

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Goran Proot

I have always been a devotee of the “Aldine leaf”, even long before I knew its exact name or where it actually came from, and I am still delighted spotting it in early modern typography or when it is expertly…

Shakespeare's personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland
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Shakespeare's personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland

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Arnold Hunt Heather Wolfe

Co-written by Heather Wolfe and Arnold Hunt It’s every bibliophile’s dream. You’re in a bookshop, or maybe at a local auction, browsing idly along the shelves. It’s late in the afternoon and you’re just preparing to leave, when you spot a…

An alter'd case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl
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An alter'd case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl

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Victoria Myers

A guest post by Victoria Myers The marks in the book The reason that I found the Folger Shakespeare Library’s copy of The Roaring Girl especially interesting is because it is completely marked up. Most of these marks are corrections…

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