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Mellow Yellow and 50 Shades of Grey: the challenges of bi-tonal images
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Mellow Yellow and 50 Shades of Grey: the challenges of bi-tonal images

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Abbie Weinberg

Well, I’m afraid our mystery image might have been a little too mysterious. For those of you still playing along, the mystery image from last week is an image from a microfilm of Folger MS D.a.6 that seems to show…

Sizing Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Sizing Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Faith Acker

A guest post by Faith Acker I still remember the first rare book I handled in a library. It was Thomas Caldecott’s copy of the Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before imprinted (Thomas Thorpe, 1609) a beautiful quarto that Caldecott presented to…

The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellany

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Betty Schellenberg

A guest post by Betty Schellenberg Recently I’ve been exploring the very active literary lives of eighteenth-century lower gentry and middle-class individuals. Many of these socially obscure people not only composed and exchanged verse in manuscript form within their own…

The Wandering Soul: On Meeting Theadora Wilkin
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The Wandering Soul: On Meeting Theadora Wilkin

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William Cook Miller

A guest post by William Cook Miller While at the Folger Shakespeare Library over the summer, I came across a manuscript so exciting, so intriguing, so multifaceted, that I spent a full week combing through it, photographing it, trying to…

Let there be light! Kliegl lights on the New York Stage
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Let there be light! Kliegl lights on the New York Stage

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Abbie Weinberg

Once again, I seem to have underestimated the level of esoteric knowledge held by our readers. Y’all are delightful (and I’m guessing have worked technical theater at some point…). Yes, yes, indeed. The Crocodile Mystery posted last week does seem…

Stuff in Books: a conundrum
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Stuff in Books: a conundrum

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Elizabeth DeBold

When we think of book history, most of us focus on the creation, dissemination, and reception of texts. But as many scholars have begun to discuss in the last few years, books and manuscripts ended up being used in many…

A Dictionary for Don Quixote
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A Dictionary for Don Quixote

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Kathryn Vomero Santos

A guest post by Kathryn Vomero Santos For scholars interested in the history of translation and language learning in early modern England, signs of use in books designed to teach their users how to read, speak, or write in another…

What are ancient coins doing at the Folger Shakespeare Library?
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What are ancient coins doing at the Folger Shakespeare Library?

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Erin Blake

Thanks for the great guesses at the identity of the November 2019 Crocodile. It’s tempting to pick one at random and just run with it (“Why yes, it is King Lear’s lost button!”) but in fact, Robin Swope’s guess that…

Learning to Weep: Early Modern Readers Reading Saint Peters Complaint (1595)
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Learning to Weep: Early Modern Readers Reading Saint Peters Complaint (1595)

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Clarissa Chenovick

A guest post by Clarissa Chenovick Devotional weeping was serious business in early modern England. In an impressive array of bestselling print sermons and spiritual treatises, preachers and writers of varied religious persuasions exhort their hearers and readers to weep,…

Early modern straws; or, quills are not just for writing
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Early modern straws; or, quills are not just for writing

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Heather Wolfe

This post is brought to you by John Ward, who observed in the 1660s that a good way to “avoid drinking too much Beer” is to “suck itt in with a quill.” John Ward’s sage advice, given him by Dr.…

The Newsy Baronet: how Richard Newdigate (per)used his newsletters
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The Newsy Baronet: how Richard Newdigate (per)used his newsletters

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Elisabeth Chaghafi

A guest post by Elisabeth Chaghafi Large collections of books or manuscripts may be interesting for two reasons: the actual content of the items they contain, and also what they reveal about the collector who compiled them. The Folger’s Newdigate…

Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book
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Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book

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April Fuller Laurel Bassett

A guest post by April Fuller and Laurel Bassett In her early eighteenth-century recipe, “A Drink for the Gout,” Mary Kettilby’s list of ingredients contain both homegrown roots and objects of empire “pressed into service” for the recovery of the…

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