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The ballad of the woodworm, or ‘reading’ holes in woodblocks
A wood cut image showing a group of celebratory-looking events surrounding a castle with purple, green, and red circles around various parts of the image
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The ballad of the woodworm, or ‘reading’ holes in woodblocks

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

This month’s Folger Mystery explores the reuse of a woodblock print as it was eaten away by worms.

Myth-busting early modern book illustration, part one
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Myth-busting early modern book illustration, part one

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Erin Blake

There’s a common core of misconceptions that many readers of this blog will be accustomed to dispelling thanks to their interest in Shakespeare and Early Modern Europe. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” doesn’t mean “Where’d you go, Romeo?!” Historic…