Blog on Early Modern Books
Pictured: Lily’s Grammar, copy at Folger Library.
Wynken de Worde is a blog on “books, early modern culture, and post-modern readings,” associated with Folger Library and aimed at undergraduates and non-specialists.
I love this message from seventeenth-century book collector Frances Walfreston to her children:
“And I give my son Stanford all my phisicke bookes, and all my godly bookes, and all the rest conditionally if any of his brothers or sisters would have them any tyme to read, and when they have done they shall returne them to their places againe, and he shall carefully keepe them together.”
I’d like to make a book mark out of that one!
Blogger Sarah Werner is also interested in “early modern information design—the presentation of tables, graphs, diagrams, and other visual tools that not only provided information to users but helped to shape how information could be used.” Shakespeare Tufte?
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