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Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed
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Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed

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Sarah Lindenbaum

A guest post by Sarah Lindenbaum “And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the margent of his eyes” (Romeo and Juliet, 1.3.87–88) Recently, two Shakespeare quartos held by the Folger Shakespeare Library were determined to…

A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643
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A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643

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Brittney Washington

A guest post by Brittney Washington Since my time as the 2017-2018 Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Resident is quickly approaching an end, I’ve been taking some time to look back on what I’ve learned about the amazing collection here at…

Engraved to Sell
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Engraved to Sell

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Printed ephemera can be exciting, especially when it reveals information that can be found nowhere else. When it is also a very rare piece with only a couple of extant copies recorded, and its design is intriguing, the discovery is…

On looking into Chapman's Homer once again
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On looking into Chapman's Homer once again

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Jessica Wolfe

A guest post by Jessica Wolfe If the name George Chapman rings a bell, it is likely because you once read John Keats’s 1816 sonnet, “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” which describes the Romantic poet’s experience of reading Chapman’s…

Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
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Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

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Erin Blake

As a couple of you guessed correctly last week, the June Crocodile Mystery is a proof for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery print of Lady Macbeth illustrating Macbeth, act 1, scene 5.See the Collation post “Proof prints, part one” for more on the meaning of “proof”…

Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style
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Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style

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Heather Wolfe

With assistance by Beth DeBold This post is dedicated to all those parents and caregivers who have gotten the dreaded phone call while at work: “your child has lice.” You have to drop everything and retrieve your child from school,…

Hinman, Redux
Composite image of all 8 titles pages of the Folger's copies of The Fairy-Queen
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Hinman, Redux

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Andrew R. Walkling

A Guest Post by Andrew R. Walkling Over this past winter and spring I have been dodging periodic snowstorms across the Mid-Atlantic region, journeying back and forth to Washington for a project that draws upon one meaning of the word…

Portia in Absentia
Letter from Percy Anderson including the phrase
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Portia in Absentia

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Abbie Weinberg

The guesses on this month’s Crocodile Mystery definitely pointed in the right direction: the mystery image this month is indeed the monogram signature of an artist. But rather than PH, it is PA: Percy Anderson. Anderson (1851-1928) was a well-respected…

The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook
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The itemized life: John Kay’s notebook

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Laura Kolb

Folger X.d.446, the notebook of John Kay, combines accounts and verses. Short-term fellow Laura Kolb argues that Kay’s book is noteworthy not because it combines these things, but because it does so with both care and a kind of inventiveness,…

Sonnets by Shakespeare...'s spirit?
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Sonnets by Shakespeare...'s spirit?

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Sarah Hovde

As the common saying goes, only death and taxes are certain. However, consider the uncertainties that can accompany any tax season: missing W-2s, e-file services incompatible with your browser, shifting standards, mathematical errors… That’s enough about taxes! Let’s talk about…

Drawing for photographic reproduction
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Drawing for photographic reproduction

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Erin Blake

This month’s crocodile mystery asked what’s going on with the odd-looking painting technique in an original work of art, shown in a detail. Here’s a view of the whole thing: Charles Sheldon, “Ellen Terry as Hermione in ‘The Winter’s Tale’…

Imagining an 18th century Jane Doe
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Imagining an 18th century Jane Doe

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Heather Wolfe

A fake woman with fake initials and a fake seal? What is going on with these early 18th century affidavits? Curator of Manuscripts Heather Wolfe explores burials, bureaucracy, and “ritualized compliance” in this post about two recent acquisitions.

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