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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…

"To benefit the suffering Belgians"
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"To benefit the suffering Belgians"

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Sarah Hovde

As several readers quickly guessed, last week’s crocodile image was a photograph of a Russian edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The “ghost” type in the image is due to a glassine (translucent paper) jacket around the volume, which obscures the printed…

Formal designs
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Formal designs

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Sarah Hovde

Did you solve last week’s crocodile mystery? It’s a sonnet! A visual representation of the phonetic structures of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. XXIX, to be precise (rotated sideways to be extra-mysterious). The pattern was created by Marjory Bates Pratt in 1940,…

"A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions
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"A superfluous luxury": the St. Dunstan illuminated editions

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Sarah Hovde

If you’re a regular user of the internet, you probably saw a multitude of images posted for the Bard’s birthday a few weeks ago. I can almost guarantee, though, that few were as opulent as the contribution from the University…

Ten copies of the “bad” 1640 Sonnets in good and bad shape
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Ten copies of the “bad” 1640 Sonnets in good and bad shape

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Goran Proot

The Folger Shakespeare Library has ten copies of the second edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets (STC 22344). All ten copies of STC 22344 in a row Engraved portrait (fol. p1v) and the first title page (fol. *1r) from copy 1 The…