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JOHN RYLANDS RESEARCH
INSTITUTE SHOWCASE
Special Lecture
Wednesday, 17 June: 12noon - 1.30pm
Christie Room, The John Rylands Library
NO BOOKING REQUIRED. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
‘Torn, wrinkled, stained and
otherwise naughty sheets’
Quality control of printing papers in the seventeenth century
Andrew Honey, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Paper was the largest cost in the production of
printed books, but we don’t fully understand how
the mechanism and economics of paper shaped
early modern book culture. The paper used for
Shakespeare’s First Folio is unusually flawed and
faulty. Was this landmark text deliberately printed
on low quality paper?
Join Andrew Honey, Book Conservator, Bodleian
Library, University of Oxford, for an invigorating
discussion of the First Folio’s papers’ flaws and
the way they reshape our understanding of the
production of early modern books.
Image : Folger STC 22273, copy 2, hh6.
Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Further information: www.manchester.ac.uk/jrri