Werner Gundersheimer - former director, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington From: The Washington Post | Date: July 21, 2002 | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

In Moscow once, a man came running to me and said he wanted to come to the Folger. "You have the greatest collection of books on early geometry," he told me. I didn't know that at the time. This place is so deep. We have early books on lacemaking, how to build staircases, urine interpretation, 16th- and 17th-century wisdom on how to read a person, early travel essays to places like the West Indies. Most of it is early printed--15th, 16th centuries-- wonderfully illustrated with woodcuts. Thes...

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