{"title":"Manuscripts \u0026 Verse","description":"A poet’s letter, a composer’s autograph score, and a valentine cut from paper with the verse still written across it. The hand, before the press.","products":[{"product_id":"elizabeth-cobbold-monitory-lizard","title":"Elizabeth Cobbold — The Monitory Lizard","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA poet's papercut. The lizard walks on her own verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the print\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cobbold, the poet of Ipswich, cut some eighty paper valentines every year — each scissored by hand from half a sheet of letter paper and inscribed with a verse of her own — for her celebrated annual Valentine's ball. Hers were cut on red paper for a lady and blue for a gentleman; this one, on red, imagines a woman's guardian: \u003cem\u003eThe Monitory Lizard\u003c\/em\u003e, the lizard that warns. (A lovely double meaning: \u003cem\u003emonitory\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003emonitor\u003c\/em\u003e lizard both come from the Latin \u003cem\u003emonere\u003c\/em\u003e, to warn.) The verse she wrote is the very ground the creature walks on. We keep her craft and her words whole: the red shirt \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e her lady's valentine paper, the lizard is the cut, the verse is underfoot. One ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eElizabeth Cobbold (1767–1824) was an English poet, naturalist and celebrated hostess. Her hand-cut valentines — made by the dozens each year for her Valentine's ball in Ipswich — survive as some of the finest amateur papercutting of the Regency era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eThe New York Public Library, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle · ca. 1823 · Public domain (NYPL)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. Do not iron directly on the print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #e0d7ca;padding-top:14px\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-archive\/cobbold-the-lizard-walks-on-her-verse\" style=\"font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#a01c14;text-decoration:none\"\u003eRead this piece in The Archive →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":48880566632548,"sku":"SA-COBBOLD-S","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":48734801559652,"sku":"SA-COBBOLD-M","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":48734801592420,"sku":"SA-COBBOLD-L","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":48734801625188,"sku":"SA-COBBOLD-XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":48734801657956,"sku":"SA-COBBOLD-2XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":48734801690724,"sku":"SA-COBBOLD-3XL","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/elizabeth-cobbold-monitory-lizard-1.jpg?v=1783890117"},{"product_id":"mozart-symphony-no-32-k318","title":"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Symphony No. 32 (K.318)","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eMozart's own hand — his signature, and the music, in ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n  \u003ch4\u003eAbout the design\u003c\/h4\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA fragment of Mozart's autograph score of his Symphony No. 32 in G major, \u003cem\u003eK.318\u003c\/em\u003e — the actual manuscript, in his hand. At the top, his name as he wrote it: \u003cem\u003e\"di Wolfgango Amadeo Mozart\"\u003c\/em\u003e. The date beneath it, \u003cem\u003e\"d. 26 Apr. 79.\"\u003c\/em\u003e, was added after his death by Johann Anton André, the publisher who bought his papers. Below, the opening of the first violins, marked \u003cem\u003eAllegro spiritoso\u003c\/em\u003e. Nothing redrawn — only recoloured to a single sepia ink, because a manuscript is worth more than any printed edition for one reason: the hand of the man. The shirt is the paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the composer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) finished his Symphony No. 32, K.318, in Salzburg on 26 April 1779 — three sections played without a break, in the manner of an Italian opera overture, bursting with the theatrical energy of his early maturity. The complete autograph survives at the New York Public Library. His music is long in the public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eThe New York Public Library, Music Division · Symphony No. 32, K.318 (autograph, 1779) · shelfmark JOB 73-55 · public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. 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The archive marks are cleaned; every stroke of his pen is untouched. Nothing redrawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n    \u003ch4\u003eAbout the artist\u003c\/h4\u003e\n    \u003cp\u003eArthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) had abandoned poetry by twenty-one. At sixteen he wrote the letters that remade what a poem could be — declaring the poet a \"seer\" and the self a stranger to itself. This is his hand at that moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/details\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eArthur Rimbaud · \u003cem\u003e« Je est un autre »\u003c\/em\u003e, autograph manuscript · 1871 · Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAF 26499, f. 21 · Public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:18px 0 0;font-family:Ciutadella,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#6b5c4e\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#2a2119\"\u003eCare\u003c\/strong\u003e — Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low. 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