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Books in the Folger collections
A Master Tailor’s Manual
An image of a single page of a book with a small block of text on the left in Spanish and an image of three men, two sewing and one using a compass and a ruler.
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A Master Tailor’s Manual

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Abner Aldarondo
The art of dying
Image of title page for Christopher Sutton's Disce mori: learn to die.
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The art of dying

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Eileen Sperry

a guest post by Eileen Sperry For early modern English Christians, dying was an art form. The bestseller list of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, had there been one, would have been topped by some of the period’s many…

Caught Inky Handed: Fingerprints of Practitioners
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Caught Inky Handed: Fingerprints of Practitioners

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Thank you for your suggestions regarding these fingerprints. They are, indeed, the marks of two different fingers with different patterns. I tend to think, like Elizabeth, that they are the marks of a middle finger and an index or a…

A Blessing to Booksellers
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A Blessing to Booksellers

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Rachel B. Dankert

In her 1616 mother’s advice book, The Mothers Blessing, Puritan author Dorothy Leigh exhorts her readers: “Teach a childe in his youth the trade of his life, and he will not forget it, not depart from it when he is…

Romeo and...
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Romeo and...

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Elizabeth DeBold

Thanks for our many eagle-eyed readers and your attention to this month’s Crocodile Post. As several folks guessed, this is a French parody of Romeo and Juliet called Roméo et Paquette, published in 1773. This item is a new acquisition, purchased in…

A Conservation Intern’s Observations on STC 2608
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A Conservation Intern’s Observations on STC 2608

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Kevin Cilurzo

A guest post by Kevin Cilurzo (with particular thanks to Adrienne Bell) For a conservator, to disbind and rebind a book is a rare chance to study and understand its binding structure. With broken sewing and loose detached leaves, Folger…

Expurgation with decoration: type ornaments as replacement text
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Expurgation with decoration: type ornaments as replacement text

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Erin Blake

Thanks for the great comments on last week’s Crocodile Mystery. Everyone scores ten points, with full marks going to the two commenters who correctly identified the publication.Plus a happy-face sticker on Philip’s comment for the tongue-in-cheek description of the apparent…

Marks on Bindings
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Marks on Bindings

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Thank you for your witty guesses to this month’s Crocodile, they are great! I also need to make a disclaimer: I am far from having collected enough evidence to answer this mystery, so like you, I only have guesses to…

Balancing information and expertise: vernacular guidance on bloodletting in early modern calendars and almanacs
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Balancing information and expertise: vernacular guidance on bloodletting in early modern calendars and almanacs

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Mary Yearl

A guest post by Mary Yearl The first calendar printed as a book in Europe was also the first to contain a printed image of a bloodletting man.1 This point alone is indicative of the importance bloodletting played in medieval…

Idols of the Reformation
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Idols of the Reformation

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Rachel B. Dankert

Thank you to all who weighed in on this month’s Crocodile Mystery! Many people recognize October 31, 1517 as a major milestone in the beginning of the Protestant Reformation—the date that it is said Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses…

A guided tour of an incunabulum from 1478
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A guided tour of an incunabulum from 1478

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Sujata Iyengar

A guest post by Sujata Iyengar Typography—the design of individual printed letter-shapes—makes printed books easier to read, and it can also shape our understanding and experience of the text and the content that an individual book contains. At first, early…

Thoroughly Modern Helena
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Thoroughly Modern Helena

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Abbie Weinberg

What do Robert Browning, Anna Maria Hall, Geraldine Jewsbury, John Ruskin, and Anna Swanwick, have in common? Quite a bit, actually. But in the Folger’s collection, they were the five “recipients” of Helena Faucit’s essays that formed the volume On…

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