{"id":1866,"date":"2015-02-17T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2015-02-17T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:14:09","slug":"help-us-restore-the-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2015\/02\/17\/help-us-restore-the-bard\/","title":{"rendered":"Help us restore the Bard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/2nf-Folio-binding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1868\" alt=\"2nf Folio binding\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/2nf-Folio-binding-266x300.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/2nf-Folio-binding-266x300.jpg 266w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/2nf-Folio-binding-908x1024.jpg 908w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/2nf-Folio-binding.jpg 1482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>As many of our readers know we acquired a &#8220;2nd Folio&#8221; of Shakespeare in 2012&#8211;the second edition (1632) of the first complete collection of the Bard&#8217;s plays ever printed (the first was in 1623). This copy resided in the possession of one family for generations&#8211;back to the mid-19th century, in fact&#8211;and although they took care of it, nothing in the way of conservation has been done to the book in over 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 19thC binding is falling apart, the sewing is coming undone, there are water stains, inactive mold, paint and ink marks, food remains, and just a general level of grime present all through the book. Every page must be cleaned with brushes and dry-cleaning erasers, tears in the pages mended with Japanese paper, older (and clumsier) repairs must be fixed or undone and re-done, and fragile edges reinforced so that the binder can put it all back together (including facsimiles of the seven missing leaves).<\/p>\n<p>We have selected Marie Oedel as our conservator&#8211;who serves in that capacity to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Library (please see her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookartisan.com\/aboutus.html\">website<\/a> for her many credentials). Our binder is Sam Ellenport, a master of his craft who ran the Harcourt Bindery in Boston for 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to raise $5,000 for this project&#8211;please e-mail richard.ring@trincoll.edu if you would like to help!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pics of water damage, mold, and tears present in the book:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1869\" alt=\"IMG_8647\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8647-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8647-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8647.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8593.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1870\" alt=\"IMG_8593\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8593-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8593-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8593.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1871\" alt=\"IMG_8585\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8585-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8585-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/02\/IMG_8585.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of our readers know we acquired a &#8220;2nd Folio&#8221; of Shakespeare in 2012&#8211;the second edition (1632) of the first complete collection of the Bard&#8217;s plays ever printed (the first was in 1623). This copy resided in the possession of one family for generations&#8211;back to the mid-19th century, in fact&#8211;and although they took care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}