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Research and Exploration at the Folger

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Undergraduate reports from the Reading Room
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Undergraduate reports from the Reading Room

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Sarah Werner

Today’s post features two accounts from students at The George Washington University who are in this semester’s Folger Undergradaute Seminar. Lyssa Meddin When I first heard about the Folger Shakespeare Library Undergraduate Seminar I was finishing up my freshman year…

Interrogating a hermit
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Interrogating a hermit

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Heather Wolfe

Three months ago the Folger was lucky enough to acquire a letter from Thomas Cromwell to George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. I say lucky because while roughly 350 letters from Cromwell survive, almost all of them are at either the…

Q & A: Julie Ainsworth, Head of Photography and Digital Imaging
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Q & A: Julie Ainsworth, Head of Photography and Digital Imaging

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The Collation

Julie Ainsworth, Head of Photography and Digital Imaging Although many readers at and visitors to the Folger Shakespeare Library might not know her name, most know her work. Julie Ainsworth, Head of Photography and Digital Imaging, is responsible for the…

Battling over 18th-century rights to Shakespeare
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Battling over 18th-century rights to Shakespeare

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Carrie Smith

In working on the Shakespeare Collection NEH grant-funded project for the past year, I have learned more than I ever imagined possible regarding the history of eighteenth-century publishing, particularly the “Shakespeare copyrights” and ownership disputes between booksellers. The feud between…

The KJV, Ben Franklin, and Noah Webster
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The KJV, Ben Franklin, and Noah Webster

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Adrienne Shevchuk

As part of the library’s celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, the Folger Institute hosted a conference bringing together scholars from across the United States and the United Kingdom to discuss the effect…

Copperplate illustrations and the question of quality
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Copperplate illustrations and the question of quality

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Erin Blake

While looking at early modern book illustration in the undergraduate seminar on Friday, we got to talking about the false assumption that copperplate illustrations always indicate better-quality publications, while woodcuts are inherently lowly. True, the raw material is more expensive:…

Folger Tooltips: Cover-to-Cover
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Folger Tooltips: Cover-to-Cover

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Jim Kuhn

Greetings, dear Readers This episode of Folger Tooltips covers a variety of methods for accessing cover-to-cover page images of early printed books and bound manuscripts from the Folger collection. At the moment there are three basic ways in: via Insight’s…

Cataloging and preserving the Shakespeare collection
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Cataloging and preserving the Shakespeare collection

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Carrie Smith

Cataloging and Preserving the Shakespeare Collection is a three-year project at the Folger Shakespeare Library funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Catalogers are working to create and upgrade definitive records for the Folger’s more…

Guyot's speciman sheet
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Guyot's speciman sheet

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Sarah Werner

If you’re a type designer (or a type caster, to be more appropriate to the early modern period), how do you show people examples of your wares? You use a specimen sheet: On this sheet, we see a matched set…

Exhibition transformations
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Exhibition transformations

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Caryn Lazzuri

It’s that time of year again: for two weeks every four months or so, the Folger’s Great Hall locks its doors and transforms from one exhibition into the next. Or, perhaps that’s how it seems to Folger visitors and readers…

From printing house to coffee house
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From printing house to coffee house

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Heather Wolfe

Last Friday a much-anticipated package arrived at the Folger, containing a series of fifteen deeds describing the successive ownership of two adjacent properties on Fleet Street (“The King’s Highway”) in London from 1543 to 1735. Deeds can be tedious to…

Q & A: Michael Witmore, Director
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Q & A: Michael Witmore, Director

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Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library With this post, we inaugurate a Q & A series with Folger staff. It seems fitting to start off with one of the most recent and most public members of the Folger…

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