Welcome to this month’s Crocodile Mystery. Today, we’re going to ask you to read between the lines, as it were: can you make out the the crossed-out name on this title page?
Squint your eyes, tilt your head, and give us your best guess!
Welcome to this month’s Crocodile Mystery. Today, we’re going to ask you to read between the lines, as it were: can you make out the the crossed-out name on this title page?
Squint your eyes, tilt your head, and give us your best guess!
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Is it Humphrey Dyson? (Looks like the signature on the Huntington copy of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.)
Is there any digital tool that allows you to eliminate what has been written over?
Yes, that’s definitely Humphrey Dyson with the lovely curving letters! https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Godly-medytacyon.jpg
John Jackson (the printer)
You all are too good! Yes, it is Humphrey Dyson. More to follow next week.