{"id":7333,"date":"2012-03-19T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/?p=622"},"modified":"2012-03-19T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T18:44:48","slug":"the-shakespearian-advertiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/the-shakespearian-advertiser\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shakespearian Advertiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The charming <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/riamco\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2011.044&amp;view=title\"><em>Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks collection<\/em> (Ms.2011.044)<\/a> has recently been cataloged.\u00a0 <em>The Shakespearian Advertiser<\/em> was published by Harlen P. Boyce in Providence, RI in 1871.\u00a0 The preface to the booklet states its purpose: &#8220;It combines information as to where our wants of all kinds may be supplied in the best manner, and at the fairest prices; with illustrations of a higher class of humor than is usually presented to the public by the so called comic papers.\u201d\u00a0 The \u201chigher class of humor\u201d was composed of comic illustrations based upon quotes from plays by William Shakespeare.\u00a0 The illustrations were interspersed between advertisements for Rhode Island and Massachusetts businesses.\u00a0 The publishers hoped the comic illustrations would entice people to look through the entire booklet and pass it along to friends.\u00a0 A clever promotional tool of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century still employed today.\u00a0 To see the finding aid go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/riamco\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2011.044&amp;view=title\">RIAMCO website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/files\/2012\/03\/Shakespearian-Advertiser-wood-block-183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-653  \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/bulspecialcollections\/files\/2012\/03\/Shakespearian-Advertiser-wood-block-183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood block #18, The Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks collection (Ms.2011.044), 1871.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charming Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks collection (Ms.2011.044) has recently been cataloged.\u00a0 The Shakespearian Advertiser was published by Harlen P. Boyce in Providence, RI in 1871.\u00a0 The preface to the booklet states its purpose: &#8220;It combines information as to where our wants of all kinds may be supplied in the best manner, and at the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/the-shakespearian-advertiser\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Shakespearian Advertiser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-general-interest","category-new-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}