#BookHistory 📚💙 #heraldry
EHC 919432 (a donation from the public library of Veurne)
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@svanimpe.bsky.social#BookHistory 📚💙 #heraldry
EHC 919432 (a donation from the public library of Veurne)
@wisdompedlars.bsky.socialSome of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
@sownow.bsky.socialIt is the birthday, in 1902, of English publisher Allen Lane.
He and his brothers founded Penguin Books, bringing books to market in the less expensive paperback format.
Penguin's origin story begins with Lane's visit to Agatha Christie in 1934. 🧵
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.socialIn Book 2 Thornton adds, 'The fuller description is related in my book of meditations on this subject and also of the First Book of My Life, page 203'. A descendant named Comber seems to have had access to that untraced book of meditations in 1832 as he discusses it at some length.
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Charles Dickens was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era, known for memorable characters and sharp social observation.
— on A Tale of Two Cities
https://ancientinkpress.com/a-tale-of-two-cities/
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@wisdompedlars.bsky.socialIT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #history #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #naturalhistory #religion #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
@portablehistorian.bsky.socialIf you were wondering the #number #one #book this week in 1966 was still Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann #books #booksky #history #bookhistory #nineteensixties #cult #crime #moviebaseduponbooks
#antifa #standandfight #resist #seniletrump #impeach #convict #remove #lockhimup
@bhgross144.bsky.socialHistory of science & #BookHistory friends: What was the size of the initial print run of Hooke's Micrographia?
(I've frequently seen the 1st edition referred to as a bestseller, but haven't found a source that confirms how many copies the Royal Society commissioned...)
@zannavanloon.bsky.socialFailed attempt to make my posts less beige…
Two decorated examples of binder’s waste: one a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century printed fragment and the other a sixteenth-century manuscript leaf.
@wisdompedlars.bsky.socialSome of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)
#antiquarian #bibliophile #history #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
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@dbellingradt.bsky.socialRussia targeted a second-hand book market in Kyiv, and publishing warehouses and printing presses nationwide . #bookhistory
@karlgalle.bsky.socialUpcoming talk both in person & online, with the author of Early Modern Print and the Art of Observation (2024) and Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany (2010) talking about her new book project on early printed travel narratives. #EarlyModern #BookHistory
@nebroadwe.bsky.socialAm I allowed to squee because my blog post on Urs Graf’s FMS woodcuts was cited in a Quaritch catalog? #bookhistory
@sophie-rose-reads.bsky.socialTeaching hands-on #bookhistory @skeuomorphpress.org continues to be so very rewarding — students yearn for the analog, y’all!
@anna-opryszko.bsky.socialAnd I would have gotten away with it* too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids**!
*an exact index
**inexact printers
Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth (London, 1649)
@emilyrohrbach.bsky.social#bookhistory exciting day, getting to see Hamilton College’s copy of Wheatley’s Poems. The Contents pages—at the end—always struck me as oddly placed. Why is it like this? Or is more common than I realized?
@ninalamal.bsky.socialIf only I had 35,000 euro's ... an interesting and beautiful hand-couloured album amicorum for sale #bookhistory www.forumrarebooks.com/item/_album_...