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'Torn, wrinckled, stained, and otherwise naughty sheets'. How should we interpret paper faults in seventeenth century paper?
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Conservators are routinely faced with torn, damaged or wrinkled papers in their work and the types of damage found may seem unremarkable. However, a surprisingly large number of flaws and faults found in early paper were made during manufacture rather than in later use. Recent conservation work to one of the Bodleian Library’s two copies of the First Folio, the 1623 first publication of William Shakespeare’s (1564–1616) collected drama, has led to research of these faults and a new appreciati...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publication website:
- https://icon.org.uk/groups/book-paper/conservation-together-at-home-webinar-series
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- Publisher:
- Institute of Conservation Book and Paper Group Publisher's website
- Series:
- Conservation: Together at Home Webinar Series
- Place of publication:
- Online webinar
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-26
- Event title:
- Conservators Together At Home webinar series organised by the Institute of Conservation Book and Paper Group
- Event location:
- Online webinar
- Event start date:
- 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
- Event end date:
- 2020-03-26T00:00:00Z
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1097735
- Local pid:
- pubs:1097735
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-08
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- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Notes:
- This is the talk script of the first webinar in the Conservators Together At Home series organised by the Institute of Conservation Book and Paper Group, 26 March 2020, 4 pm GMT (a slightly altered version of a talk first given to the ICON B&P Group at the British Library, 9 March 2017). A recording is available at: https://youtu.be/Ax2-YOKc9L0
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