TY - BOOK AU - Lesser,Zachary TI - Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée T2 - Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library SN - 9780812297928 AV - PR3071 .L47 2021eb U1 - 822.3/3 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - History-Medieval 500 to 1500 KW - Literature (Scholarly) KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare KW - bisacsh KW - 17th seventeenth century English literature KW - A.W. Pollard KW - Authorship KW - British literary criticism KW - Early Modern Rare Book Manuscript KW - False Folio KW - First Folio KW - History of the book KW - Jaggard Quarto KW - New Bibliography Research Methodology KW - Shakespeare Bibliography KW - Shakespeare Pavier Quartos KW - Shakespeare drama plays KW - W.W. Greg KW - antiquarian rare books KW - books about books KW - bookselling KW - forgers KW - printing publishing history N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Ghosts --; Chapter 2. Holes --; Chapter 3. Rips and Scrapes --; Conclusion. Questions --; Appendix A. Census of Known Sets of the 1619 Quartos --; Appendix B. Order of Plays in Known Bindings of the 1619 Quartos --; Appendix C. Copies Consulted --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected works" of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but as a series of more humble quarto pamphlets. For mysterious reasons, perhaps involving Shakespeare's playing company, the King's Men, the project ran into trouble. In an attempt to salvage it, information on the title pages of some of the playbooks was falsified, making them resemble leftover copies of earlier editions. The deception worked for nearly three hundred years, until it was unmasked by scholars in the early twentieth century. The discovery of these "Pavier Quartos," as they became known, was a landmark success for the New Bibliography and played an important role in establishing the validity and authority of that method of analysis. While more recent scholars have reassessed the traditional narrative that the New Bibliographers wrote, no one has gone back to look at the primary evidence: the quartos themselves.In Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes Zachary Lesser undertakes a completely fresh study of these playbooks. Through an intensive bibliographical analysis of over three hundred surviving quartos, Lesser reveals evidence that has gone entirely unseen before: "ghosts" (faint, oily impressions produced when one book is bound next to another); "holes" (the tiny remains of the first simple stitching that held pamphlets together); and "rips and scrapes" (post-production alterations of title pages). This new evidence—much of it visible only with the aid of enhanced photographic methods—suggests that the "Pavier Quartos" are far more mysterious, with far more consequential ramifications for book history and Shakespeare scholarship than we have thought UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297928 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297928 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812297928/original ER -