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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812297928
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812297928
035 _a(DE-B1597)573130
035 _a(OCoLC)1255188525
040 _aDE-B1597
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082 0 4 _a822.3/3
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLesser, Zachary
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGhosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes :
_bShakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée /
_cZachary Lesser.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.) :
_b70 color imgs and 1 table
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aPublished in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Ghosts --
_tChapter 2. Holes --
_tChapter 3. Rips and Scrapes --
_tConclusion. Questions --
_tAppendix A. Census of Known Sets of the 1619 Quartos --
_tAppendix B. Order of Plays in Known Bindings of the 1619 Quartos --
_tAppendix C. Copies Consulted --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aFour 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 4 _aHistory-Medieval 500 to 1500.
650 4 _aLiterature (Scholarly).
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
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653 _a17th seventeenth century English literature.
653 _aA.W. Pollard.
653 _aAuthorship.
653 _aBritish literary criticism.
653 _aEarly Modern Rare Book Manuscript.
653 _aFalse Folio.
653 _aFirst Folio.
653 _aHistory of the book.
653 _aJaggard Quarto.
653 _aNew Bibliography Research Methodology.
653 _aShakespeare Bibliography.
653 _aShakespeare Pavier Quartos.
653 _aShakespeare drama plays.
653 _aW.W. Greg.
653 _aantiquarian rare books.
653 _abooks about books.
653 _abookselling.
653 _aforgers.
653 _aprinting publishing history.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297928
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