was Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books at the Folger Shakespeare Library from June 2012 to August 2014. — View all posts by Goran Proot
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It just occurred to me that the best-known piece of lottery ephemera in the Folger collection isn’t even cataloged as such, since it’s from 1770 and therefore technically out-of-scope: the unique Titus Andronicus quarto has an unused Swedish lottery handbill (sometimes wrongly identified as a ticket) for a cover. Apparently the lottery was to raise money for building canal locks at Trollhättan. See http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3zex1f for the handbill. See the Google Street view of the locks for the end result.
Thanks for this wonderfully illuminating post. I noticed that lots here are coordinated with an array of “posies” or short verses. It would be nice to know what these posies were.
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It just occurred to me that the best-known piece of lottery ephemera in the Folger collection isn’t even cataloged as such, since it’s from 1770 and therefore technically out-of-scope: the unique Titus Andronicus quarto has an unused Swedish lottery handbill (sometimes wrongly identified as a ticket) for a cover. Apparently the lottery was to raise money for building canal locks at Trollhättan. See http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/3zex1f for the handbill. See the Google Street view of the locks for the end result.
Erin Blake — November 29, 2012
Goran,
Thanks for this wonderfully illuminating post. I noticed that lots here are coordinated with an array of “posies” or short verses. It would be nice to know what these posies were.
Thanks again for this piece,
Mike
Michael Witmore — May 9, 2013