Blog — Inside a Book

Stumbling upon a bookish find is wonderful, especially when it is already part of your collection! While I was sorting through my books, I found this little treasure in the bin of books that do not fit on the shelves. I think it must have come from one of those used book sales where the prices are so low that the best tactic is to pile up everything that looks like it could be interesting, buy all of them before anyone else does, and sort through them later. There was (is?) one held at the university, which is particularly good...

A book is always more than a book, but some instances are more obvious than others. Such is the case of this copy of As You Like It, a facsimile from the first folio. Its former owner stuffed it full of articles and other Shakespeare-related ephemera.   The title page                                                                                          A look inside                                                                                           Verse numbering bookmark included! A list of other titles available Ephemera, mostly from Shakespeare's 400th birthday A very fancy brochure from an exhibition Classic portrait of William James I with the Globe Theater in the background  "That Man Shakespeare" "Why not Pattern Dinner after the Bard of...