17 June 2013
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Heather Wolfe and Guest Author
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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 … Continue reading
13 June 2013
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Guest Author
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A guest post by Victoria Myers [Editor’s note: Victoria Myers was a student in the Fall 2012 Folger Undergraduate Seminar taught by Sarah Werner. As part of that course, Victoria researched the history of a copy of the first printing … Continue reading
10 June 2013
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Sarah Werner
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This month’s crocodile mystery was, as Andrew Keener quickly identified, an image from Gabriel Harvey’s copy of Lodovico Domenichi’s Facetie and (Folger H.a.2): There is a lot that could be said about Gabriel Harvey and his habits of reading.1 He was a scholar, … Continue reading
3 June 2013
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The Collation
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The last few crocodile mysteries have zoomed in on details. Here, for a change of pace, we’re zooming out to a full-page spread: In the past crocodiles have been about categories of objects, not necessarily the specifics. But a few … Continue reading
30 May 2013
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Jim Kuhn and Georgianna Ziegler
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Greetings Dear Readers! Today’s tooltip introduces new e-book resources we are in the process of rolling out through Hamnet, including: ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB), a nonprofit online collection of over 3,700 current and recent titles in the humanities, “offering a … Continue reading
28 May 2013
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Erin Blake
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Last time I posted on The Collation (Two disciplines separated by a common language, 30 April 2013), I went off on a bit of a rant about vocabulary barriers between printed pictures and printed words. Guess what? There’s more! That … Continue reading
24 May 2013
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Goran Proot
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The Folger Shakespeare Library has ten copies of the second edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets (STC 22344).
21 May 2013
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Sarah Werner
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Last month I wrote about a book—nay, a leaf of a book—and the secret histories it reveals about how it was made, from the growth of the tree that became the woodblock to the valleys and hills that formed during … Continue reading
13 May 2013
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Heather Wolfe
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Learning to write the alphabet is one of the first stages of writing literacy. For early modern English children, this meant first learning to read the letters of the alphabet (printed in black letter) from a hornbook. They then learned to … Continue reading
6 May 2013
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Sarah Werner
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As the commenters on last week’s crocodile guessed, the mystery image showed writing masquerading as print or, to use the more formal term, a pen facsimile (click on any of the images in the post to enlarge them): It’s telling … Continue reading