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Shakespeare's personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland
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Shakespeare's personal library, as curated by William Henry Ireland

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Arnold Hunt Heather Wolfe

Co-written by Heather Wolfe and Arnold Hunt It’s every bibliophile’s dream. You’re in a bookshop, or maybe at a local auction, browsing idly along the shelves. It’s late in the afternoon and you’re just preparing to leave, when you spot a…

An alter'd case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl
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An alter'd case: An annotated copy of The Roaring Girl

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Victoria Myers

A guest post by Victoria Myers The marks in the book The reason that I found the Folger Shakespeare Library’s copy of The Roaring Girl especially interesting is because it is completely marked up. Most of these marks are corrections…

Annotating and collaborating
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Annotating and collaborating

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Sarah Werner

This month’s crocodile mystery was, as Andrew Keener quickly identified, an image from Gabriel Harvey’s copy of Lodovico Domenichi’s Facetie and (Folger H.a.2): Gabriel Harvey’s heavily annotated copy of Facetie (fol. 1v-2r) There is a lot that could be said about Gabriel…

Women marking the text
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Women marking the text

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Georgianna Ziegler

“I beegan, to ourloke this Booke . . . .”  These words are written by Lady Anne Clifford on the title page of her copy of John Selden’s Titles of Honor (1631), which is featured in the first case of…

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