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
Is there any digital tool that allows you to eliminate what has been written over?
GIETT — March 26, 2019
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
John Jackson (the printer)
Donna Royston — March 26, 2019
You all are too good! Yes, it is Humphrey Dyson. More to follow next week.
Heather Wolfe — March 28, 2019