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:''Collecting, Compiling, and Creating: Manuscript Writing by Seventeenth-Century Women''

...izabeth ruled during most of Shakespeare's lifetime, and the Folgers began collecting materials about her as they focused on Shakespeare. The collection on Engli

...these collections adds significantly to an existing area of the library's collecting interest; each reflects the dedication and discrimination of its builders; ...ndsome appearance. He often played opposite his older sister [[A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years of Acquisitions#Siddons Portrait|Sarah Siddons]] (17

...lee”]] of 1769. Shakespeare’s reputation grew alongside a passion for book collecting among the wealthy, and the Shakespeare First Folio quickly became a must-ha ...he rate and the quantity of acquisition are unique in the antiquarian book collecting.

...ent president of Amherst College, Charles W. Cole.<ref>Stephen H. Grant, ''Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkin

...this book with a view that I shd. give it to my friend Mr. Garmer, who was collecting Quarto Editions of Shakespeare plays. I accordingly sent it dow[n] [t]o him

prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his

* Is the item within [[Collection development|Folger collecting scope]]? We collect materials on early modern European civilization, the ti

: 3. in book-collecting terms, a size based on definition 2.

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:Hobson, Anthony. ''Renaissance book collecting; Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de mendoza, their books and bindings''. Cam ...onstruction and Covering of Bindings of Printed Books." ''Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books''. ed. Brownrigg and Smith. Los Altos Hills, 20

Noted bibliophile Robert S. Pirie (1934–2015) focused his collecting on English literature before 1700. His book and manuscript collection was a

...ormance, and the performative implications of color-conscious casting; the collecting, printing, and reading of Shakespeare’s plays and their role in elementar ...ambitions were vast and included an aggressive practice of Gilded Age book collecting, focused on Shakespeare. Meanwhile major cultural countercurrents included

*''Collecting the Book that Breaks the Rules: Shakespeare’s First Folio at Auction'', J

...olger, a New York couple who shared a lifelong passion for Shakespeare and collecting. By locating their monument to Shakespeare and his age at the heart of civi

...manuscript collections. This differs from the aim of an art museum, whose collecting practices are often aesthetic or artist focused. The Folger has a wide var

...al research. Several gentlemen and scholars became antiquarians, intent on collecting and preserving the traces of the past in manuscripts, coins, relics or ruin

...lection of “relics.” This exhibition would not exist without the committed collecting activities that such devotion has inspired. === Passionate Collecting ===

...popularity of Scott’s works on the stage or changes in William Henderson’s collecting interests cannot be determined.

...ifacts, relations of texts and practices as exemplified by food knowledge, collecting practices and institutions, craft and design, and natural historical object