Day: October 11, 2018

Front facade of Houghton Library

Looking Beyond the Text in Frances Wolfreston’s Books

By Sarah Lindenbaum In the introduction of Marks in Books, Roger Stoddard’s catalogue of his 1984 exhibit on marginalia and other book traces, he writes, “As anthropologists have discovered, traces of wear can tell us how artifacts were used by human beings. Books no less than tools, apparel, and habits can show signs of wear,…