{"id":13431,"date":"2014-04-24T05:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13431"},"modified":"2014-04-26T06:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:18:02","slug":"how-come-i-never-find-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/24\/how-come-i-never-find-one\/","title":{"rendered":"How Come I Never Find One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/booksellers-claim-to-have-found-shakespeares-annotated-dictionary-20140421-3707q.html\" target=\"_blank\">Booksellers claim to have found Shakespeare&#8217;s annotated dictionary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it&#8217;s real, it&#8217;s the literary find of the century. New York antiquarian booksellers Daniel Wechsler and George Koppelman believe they have found William Shakespeare&#8217;s annotated dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>The book itself is John Baret&#8217;s An Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie, published in 1580. It was listed on eBay in late April 2008. They placed a bid of $US4300 and got it for $US4050. Wechsler is unequivocal, &#8220;only $250 separated us from never having had this experience.&#8221;<br \/>\nImages taken from the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>Although unsigned, it contains thousands of annotations in a contemporary hand that point directly to the composition of some of Shakespeare&#8217;s best known works, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and many of the sonnets. Wechsler and Koppelman have spent the past six years making sense of the annotations and building a case that it is Shakespeare&#8217;s copy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To answer my own question, I never find these because I don&#8217;t like to spend more than a dollar on a book.  <\/p>\n<p>Also, I live in southwest Missouri, which is better suited for finding caches of silver coins than four hundred year old books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booksellers claim to have found Shakespeare&#8217;s annotated dictionary: If it&#8217;s real, it&#8217;s the literary find of the century. New York antiquarian booksellers Daniel Wechsler and George Koppelman believe they have found William Shakespeare&#8217;s annotated dictionary. The book itself is John Baret&#8217;s An Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie, published in 1580. It was listed on eBay in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13439,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431\/revisions\/13439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}