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The Drury Lane printshop
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The Drury Lane printshop

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Jeffrey Meade’s guess is correct: this type inventory includes a great variety of large sized type. It belongs to a longer document made in June 1819 recording the furniture of the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane when the theater was…

Under Cover: Forged Bindings on Display at the Folger
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Under Cover: Forged Bindings on Display at the Folger

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Elizabeth DeBold

Our latest exhibition, Form and Function: the Genius of the Book, provides visitors with a true visual feast. Offering a wide array of different types of bindings from the Folger collections, exhibition attendees will learn about the techniques and materials historically…

Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture
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Dancing Skeletons and Human Hair: Remembrance, Memento Mori, and Material Culture

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Catherine Elliott Tisdale

A guest post by Catherine Elliott Tisdale How do you remember loved ones who have passed away or family members who have scattered across the four winds? Today if we lose someone, we turn to photos, family films, emails, texts,…

Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed
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Written in the Margent: Frances Wolfreston Revealed

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Sarah Lindenbaum

A guest post by Sarah Lindenbaum “And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the margent of his eyes” (Romeo and Juliet, 1.3.87–88) Recently, two Shakespeare quartos held by the Folger Shakespeare Library were determined to…

A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643
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A Pamphlet War in England, 1641-1643

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Brittney Washington

A guest post by Brittney Washington Since my time as the 2017-2018 Nadia Sophie Seiler Rare Materials Resident is quickly approaching an end, I’ve been taking some time to look back on what I’ve learned about the amazing collection here at…

Engraved to Sell
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Engraved to Sell

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Caroline Duroselle-Melish

Printed ephemera can be exciting, especially when it reveals information that can be found nowhere else. When it is also a very rare piece with only a couple of extant copies recorded, and its design is intriguing, the discovery is…

Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars
King Henry VIII prompt book
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Explore promptbooks from the 1950s festival Shakespeare Under the Stars

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Esther French

The Folger collection contains a number of prompt books from Shakespeare Under the Stars productions, which were gifts from Arthur Lithgow.

On looking into Chapman's Homer once again
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On looking into Chapman's Homer once again

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Jessica Wolfe

A guest post by Jessica Wolfe If the name George Chapman rings a bell, it is likely because you once read John Keats’s 1816 sonnet, “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” which describes the Romantic poet’s experience of reading Chapman’s…

In the vault with 'Saint Joan'
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In the vault with 'Saint Joan'

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emma poltrack

Today, Folger Spotlight gives you a sneak peek at what was brought out for the Saint Joan company on a special tour of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection.

Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
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Proof print from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

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Erin Blake

As a couple of you guessed correctly last week, the June Crocodile Mystery is a proof for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery print of Lady Macbeth illustrating Macbeth, act 1, scene 5.See the Collation post “Proof prints, part one” for more on the meaning of “proof”…

Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style
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Early modern head lice remedies; or, dealing with pediculosis, Renaissance-style

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Heather Wolfe

With assistance by Beth DeBold This post is dedicated to all those parents and caregivers who have gotten the dreaded phone call while at work: “your child has lice.” You have to drop everything and retrieve your child from school,…

Hinman, Redux
Composite image of all 8 titles pages of the Folger's copies of The Fairy-Queen
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Hinman, Redux

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Andrew R. Walkling

A Guest Post by Andrew R. Walkling Over this past winter and spring I have been dodging periodic snowstorms across the Mid-Atlantic region, journeying back and forth to Washington for a project that draws upon one meaning of the word…

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