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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: April 2019

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.)

Misha Teramura — March 26, 2019

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Is there any digital tool that allows you to eliminate what has been written over?

GIETT — March 26, 2019

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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

Emily Dourish — March 26, 2019

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John Jackson (the printer)

Donna Royston — March 26, 2019

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You all are too good! Yes, it is Humphrey Dyson. More to follow next week.

Heather Wolfe — March 28, 2019

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