September 2012

THE MYSTERY OF THE SILKWORM:
Conversations in the Reading Room and Beyond

by Janice Neri, Boise State University, and Danielle Skeehan, Northeastern University

Figure 2. "A strange thing," John Ferrar's (?) annotation and personal mark in Gerhard Mercator, Atlas; or, A geographicke description of the world (London, 1635), p. 862 (detail). JCB call number Z M533 1635 1-SIZE

Detail 1 showing Virginia Ferrar's stylized "V" at the end of her annotations

Detail 2 showing another annotator, most likely John Ferrar, with the signature of "J.F.".

Janice Neri and Danielle Skeehan, "The Mystery of the Silk Worm: Conversations in the Reading Room and Beyond," I Found it at the JCB, Online Journal of the John Carter Brown Library, August 2012.