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"I see it feelingly": a raised-type King Lear
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"I see it feelingly": a raised-type King Lear

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Sarah Hovde

For many of the books in our collection, an unassuming cover can turn out to protect a fascinating text block. What makes this one unusual is the discovery, upon opening the cover, that this book is meant to be read not with the…

Pi(e) day, represented
Pi given as a ratio
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Pi(e) day, represented

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Abbie Weinberg

March 14th is Pi(e) Day, and this year we get an extra two digits (this year’s date being, in the American style, 3/14/15, taking us through the first 5 digits of pi). While many people (including our culinarily-inclined staff here…

"This Play I Red" and other marginal notes on reading
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"This Play I Red" and other marginal notes on reading

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Claire M. L. Bourne

A guest post by Claire M. L. Bourne As a long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library this year, I have been surveying all the English playbooks in the collection—from 1500 to 1709—in order to understand changing conventions of dramatic…

Research round-up: February 2015
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Research round-up: February 2015

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Abbie Weinberg

The theme of this month’s post, which features two questions regarding 19th-century sources, is “We have materials beyond the early modern period!” As our collection development policy states, in addition to seeking primary source material on English and continental civilization…

Unwanted doodles in a Shakespeare quarto
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Unwanted doodles in a Shakespeare quarto

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Heather Wolfe

Our new curator of early modern books and prints, Caroline Duroselle-Melish, and I were up in the conservation lab a few days ago, consulting with book conservator Adrienne Bell on the optimal opening for safely digitizing a quarto edition of…

Acquisitions Night: February 5, 2015
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Acquisitions Night: February 5, 2015

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Erin Blake

Got your tickets yet? Acquisitions Night is just over a week away! This once-a-year event directly supports the growth of the collection by giving people the chance to “adopt” selected items acquired over the past year—that is, reimburse the purchase price to the library so…

From comet tales to bear tails
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From comet tales to bear tails

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Abbie Weinberg

After watching NASA’s test-launch of the Orion Spacecraft last month, I was inspired to dive into the Folger’s collection of astronomical texts. Quite by accident, I stumbled upon the works of John Bainbridge. I’ve had just enough history of science…

Storming Shakespeare: creating an artists' book
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Storming Shakespeare: creating an artists' book

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Jan Kellett

A guest post by Jan Kellett Editor’s note: When the Folger acquired the lovely artist’s book Storming Shakespeare from Jan Kellett last year, Erin Blake asked if she would be willing to share some information with our readers about the…

How the "Mastiffs" reached the Folger
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How the "Mastiffs" reached the Folger

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Sarah Hovde

In June 1878, the novelist Anthony Trollope and a dozen of his friends boarded the yacht “Mastiff” in Scotland for its maiden voyage, a trip to Iceland. They stayed just over a week, but the episode provided Trollope with enough…

Research round-up
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Research round-up

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Abbie Weinberg

One of the best bits of my job as a reference librarian here at the Folger (oh, who am I kidding? They’re all “best bits”) is answering research questions from scholars who are not on site. I really enjoy being…

Ohel or Dod? Ideal copies and messy print
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Ohel or Dod? Ideal copies and messy print

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Kathleen Lynch

When is a repair to a title page more like a clue to a bibliographical puzzle? detail of an altered title page This question has intrigued me since, some years ago, I first consulted a Folger copy of John Rogers’s…

A carousel of tragedy
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A carousel of tragedy

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Sarah Werner

We are used to thinking of productions of Shakespeare’s plays as creating new works of art that demonstrate the vitality of the centuries-old drama. But in the right hands, books can achieve the same effect. Emily Martin’s The Tragedy of…

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