DIY First Folio is an interactive tool for learning how early modern printers produced Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) in William and Isaac Jaggard's printing house. Working from digital images of the Folger Shakespeare Library's copy no. 68, it walks through how pages were printed onto sheets and nested into gatherings, how Troilus and Cressida was nearly left out of the book, and how the preliminary pages were assembled.
DIY First Folio grew out of the Folger Institute's 2016-17 micro-grant initiative Teaching Shakespeare to Undergraduates, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was also an outgrowth of The Wonder of Will: 400 Years of Shakespeare, the Folger's national initiative to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016.
- Editors: Kathleen Lynch and Kyle Vitale
- Designer/Developer: Rebecca Niles (Virtual Printing House)
- Digital Coordinator: Meaghan Brown
- Information Architect: Stacey Redick
The Folger's own presentation of the project, including downloadable PDF facsimiles, is archived at: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeare-in-print/diy-first-folio/
This repository has been released publicly as free/open-source software; it is no longer an actively maintained Folger product.
The source code in this repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE.md.
Digitized images are not code and carry their own rights status. See NOTICE.md.