The four Shakespeare folios : copy, print, paper, type / edited by Samuel V. Lemley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemley, Samuel V. (Samuel Vincent), editor.

Series:

Penn State series in the history of the book

The Penn State series in the history of the book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Bibliography--Folios.

Shakespeare, William.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Four Shakespeare folios, 1623-2023

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, [2024]

Summary:

"A collection of essays by leading scholars of Shakespeare in print, offering an overview of current research on the Folios and on unsettled questions about the bibliography of Shakespeare's plays"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Publishing the four folios / Andrew Murphy

Paper, type, and labor : making the first folio / Claire M.L. Bourne

The Droeshout portrait and the title page / Erin C. Blake

"Folio" and format : supersizing Shakespeare / Tara L. Lyons

Surviving Shakespeare : or, what we can learn from 3,000 copies and 382 fragments of the plays and poems / Zachary Lesser

Everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types: computational bibliography and the fourth folio's printers / Samuel V. Lemley, Nikolai Vogler, Christopher N. Warren, D.J. Schuldt, Laura S. DeLuca, Kari Thomas, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Dieterich, Kartik Goyal, Max G'Sell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271097329

0271097329

OCLC:

1420353447