Folio Lives of the English Poets- Photo Mistake?

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Folio Lives of the English Poets- Photo Mistake?

1Betelgeuse
Editat: des. 13, 2020, 11:07 am

This will be a pretty obscure one, I admit... I have a copy of Folio's 1965 edition of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. Between pp.128-129, there are two purported portraits of Abraham Cowley -- but one of them looks awfully like the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare. Does anyone else see this, or do I have an aberrant edition? Edited to add that I don't know how to upload photos here.

2Jayked
des. 13, 2020, 12:21 pm

> You're right -- it is the Chandos portrait. The mistake is noted in Folio 60. Apparently a correction was issued, but some of the mistaken versions survive.

3Betelgeuse
des. 13, 2020, 12:30 pm

>2 Jayked: Thank you!

4abysswalker
des. 13, 2020, 12:45 pm

>1 Betelgeuse: regarding photos: it’s a two step process. Go to your profile and click on the gallery. Then upload the photo. I use the “junk drawer” category since I generally only want to use the image in a “talk” conversation. Save the url of the uploaded photo (for most operating systems, this will be something on the right-click context menu). Then edit the image into your post using a standard html img tag.

(You can also use external image hosting services, which may provide higher image resolution and more streamlined upload procedure, but such links tend to rot over time, leading to conversations with collections of broken links to images.)

5Betelgeuse
des. 13, 2020, 12:48 pm

>4 abysswalker: Thank you! I'll star this so I can refer to it in the future!

6affle
des. 14, 2020, 5:44 pm

>1 Betelgeuse:

It seems your copy has both the original erroneous Chandos portrait and the cancel leaf of Cowley. My copy has just the Chandos portrait - no sign of the cancel leaf - and presumably there are copies that have had the Chandos removed and replaced by the Cowley cancel. Your version is the one to have, clearly.

7Betelgeuse
des. 14, 2020, 8:09 pm

>6 affle: I guess, though I never collect books for resale value, and I doubt the value would be very high. It's a pretty old and obscure book. I'd actually rather have a copy with only the Cowley portrait, but I can't be bothered to trade.