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  • [+] More The Collation - The New Blog of the Folger Shakespeare Library 


    The Collation - The New Blog of the Folger Shakespeare Library
    Published since 22 Aug 2011
    The Folger Library has started a new blog. The inaugural post explains the origin of the blog's name: Collation. This is a word with rich associations, many of which are of particular relevance to scholars. One definition refers to an intricate method of comparing copies of texts in search of differences.

  • [+] More Devil in the Details 


    Published since 13 Jan 2010

    By the time Henry Clay Folger died in 1930, he had amassed a collection of early English printing that is most famous for housing more than a third of all the copies known today of the First Folio of Shakespeare.
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