this wednesday at 6:30 pm!

a great chance to visit the rare book department Free Library of Philadelphia & see john milton’s copy of the shakespeare first folio in person.

you can always explore it online here: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/featur…

cc Jason Scott-Warren

happy shakespeare day to all who celebrate!

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i got you a watermark of his head from a book about... the history of paper!

PAPER: An Historical Account of Its Making by Hand (1934) • Case Wing folio Z 10535 .173, Newberry Library

As it is Shakespeare's maybe-birthday, it seems like a good time to point out that registration for the The Marlowe Society of America conference is live. I am v excited & honoured to give be a keynote speaker in July. More info here: marlowesocietyofamerica.org/conferences?fb…

introducing THE PUNCTUATION PETS
by ruth douglas keener

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BOOKMAKING ON THE DISTAFF SIDE (1937) • Wing Z 3059. 109, @newberrylibrary

Have spent a little over a year, on and off, cataloguing hundreds of 19thC book sale catalogues Cambridge UL Special Collections, received in 1975 from Tim Munby's library but until now not fully catalogued. Enjoy!

Today is UK publication day for The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives! If you can’t read the whole book, here it is, epitomised, in a thread …

Hundreds of nineteenth-century book auction catalogues @theul now catalogued & available! Read more here: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28022

Book Parts, Chinese edition! product.m.dangdang.com/product.php?pi… Adam Smyth Rachel Sagner Buurma / @rbuurma.bsky.social Joseph A. Howley Jenny Davidson Gill Partington 39StepPress [email protected] Meaghan Brown Helen Smith claire m. l. bourne Hazel Wilkinson Nicholas Dames Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book

Absolutely tremendous series - have read all three so far, and looking forward to more. Strikes me as precisely the sort of area the 'elements' format can enable cracking work in.

Thank you to all who came to our Shakespeare Elements reception, and thank you to our series editors for sharing a few words about our series! #CambridgeElements #Shax2024

Auction news in the stab-stitching world:

Never bound, still w/ its original stitching, this 1570 abridgment & translation of Fadrique Furió Ceriol's Consejo i Consejeros del Principe fetched $16,250 Swann Galleries!

Included an unattached wrapper made from a medieval MS Bible.

Join us Shakespeare Association of America to celebrate the launch of our fabulous three Shakespeare Elements series! Stop by the Cambridge stand on Thursday 11th April @ 6pm to hear our wonderful editors in conversation. 🍷 & 🍿 will be served! All are welcome. #Shax2024 #CambridgeElements

🌟TODAY at #Shax2024 🌟
📖BOOK SERIES LAUNCH!📖

celebrate the launch of three Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance ELEMENTS series, including ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT, which i co-edit with Rory Loughnane

6 pm Shakespeare Association of America BOOK EXHIBIT
(CUP STAND)

🍷 & 🍿 will be served!
all are welcome!

if you're going to Shakespeare Association of America this week—especially if you're new[ish] to SAA—& need a place to sit at friday's luncheon, come sit with me & meet some great people!

totally informal and hopefully not stressful! 🍽️🎭✨

reply here or DM me & i'll send you details.

To accompany their popular article, 'Alice Mustian, Playwright', authors (David McInnis, Matthew Steggle, and Misha Termamura) have written an OUPblog piece detailing their research methods and a behind-the-scenes look into writing the article.

Read here: oxford.ly/3VRAuRg

Northwestern early modern studies and material-text folks welcome Claire M.L. Bourne April 18! Northwestern Weinberg College at Northwestern Northwestern English

if you would like to discuss an idea for an ELEMENT in our series, please get in touch. Rory Loughnane & i will both be Shakespeare Association of America & are happy to chat!

you can find details about ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT (along with contact info) here: cambridge.org/core/publicati…