{"id":2938,"date":"2022-09-14T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/?post_type=phernalia&p=2938"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:25:23","slug":"enter-the-first-folio-and-george-steevens","status":"publish","type":"phernalia","link":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/phernalia\/enter-the-first-folio-and-george-steevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter The First Folio (and George Steevens)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
When I started working at the Stationers\u2019 Company in 2017, the first record I saw was the entry in the Stationers\u2019 Register for Shakespeare\u2019s First Folio. The outgoing archivist was giving me the usual sort of handover: which material is most frequently consulted, what are the conservation priorities, how big is the cataloguing backlog, where are the teabags kept\u2026 And then she paused to show me this one particular document, traditionally considered by the Stationers to be the treasure of their Archive: you can tell by the fading of the ink, several shades lighter than on the adjacent pages, due to that opening having been displayed at Stationers\u2019 Hall for months on end. The collateral damage has limited how long we\u2019ll ever be able to exhibit those pages again, she warned me, as she slipped the volume out of its custom-built conservation case.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t