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Crispijn van de Passe

A print pricked for transfer
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A print pricked for transfer

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Erin Blake

So, what’s up with the crocodile mystery for March? As I said in the comments, Tom Reedy was verrrrry close with “It looks like some sort of device using punctures along a line to allow powder or ink to pass through…

Dye to live, live to dye
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Dye to live, live to dye

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Heather Wolfe Margaret Hannay

The Folger has recently acquired some interesting hybrid books; that is, books which consist of a mixture of thematically-connected printed, manuscript, and graphic material gathered from a variety of sources into a single binding. Sidney scholar and Folger reader Margaret…