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Digitized #OA! The flagship Flemish journal for #BookHistory, an invaluable resource for all aspects of book culture across the centuries, especially in the Low Countries, and ... the berth of my first published article, "De Hebreeuwse handschriften van het Museum Plantin-Moretus" GP 86 (2008), 7-28

This is a wonderful resource of important book history articles! Many thanks to DBNL.
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Letter from 1886: “To have time to read history has been a thing I have always greatly desired & now I find very great pleasure in it.” The past isn’t always a foreign country. #BookHistory

500 Years of Yiddish Printing

Splendid lineup for a symposium in Oxford, 4–6 October 2026 (the first day, נעבעך, is yontef).

medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...

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Bernard Quaritch’s ( @quaritch1847.bsky.social) entirely predictable view of holidays. #BookHistory

Latest book find. 25 working volumes printed by OUP and CUP during the preparation of the New English Bible, including confidential Joint Committee copies, Westminster Abbey agenda, C. H. Dodd material and handwritten translation notes.

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Charles Dickens grew up partly in Kent, in southeastern England, a region that shapes much of the novel's setting.
— on Great Expectations
https://ancientinkpress.com/great-expectations/
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Also, 17th-c. bookseller's widow Juana de Guendulain was definitely right that Lorenzo Coroneu (MA thesis bookseller) was cheating her and vastly over-appraising her husband's books! His appraisals can be 2x higher than 3 witness booksellers!
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Following the donation of his Julian Barnes collection to the University of South Carolina, LPP President Richard Layman reflects on what Barnes and his work mean to him.

laymanpublishing.com/julian-barne...

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Join us on 15 September, 8:00-9:30 pm CEST, for our very first Nottebohm Talks!

Former Nottebohm Fellows will present their research conducted in Antwerp thanks to our Nottebohm Fellowship. More info & registration: sl1nk.com/ti9htou

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