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#BookHistory 📜 #PrintingHistory 📚💙 #Batman
ryancordell.org Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Jul 1
How did I only learn today—as the episode played on a restaurant TV—that the classic Adam West Batman included an arc with a villain called The Bookworm, whose henchmen include Pressman, Printer’s Devil, & Typesetter??!!

Look at them in their printer’s caps!!! batman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Boo...
July 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
carinr.bsky.social
A must-watch if you haven't seen this, #bookhistory and #printinghistory people.
bdgilchrist.bsky.social bdgilchrist @bdgilchrist.bsky.social · Apr 4
A thirty-minute film about the last night of the hot-type molten-lead linotype setting and printing at the NY Times, 1979. The complex mechanical process then rather breathtakingly gives way to the cold-type computer-generated paste-down method of typesetting...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGj...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
svanimpe.bsky.social
📚 📜 #BookHistory #PrintingHistory #Archives #PrintedForms
kawulf.bsky.social Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Feb 23
War is disruptive and violent in a million ways. During the siege of Boston in 1775-76, w Loyalists moving into the city and patriots leaving, moving across militarized lines was challenging. Passes for Rev Abbott "to pass the guards" (the patriots' line) in April/ May 1775 🗃️ @jcblibrary.bsky.social
4 scraps of paper with brief inscription giving Abbott the right to "pass the guards." Three entirely manuscript, one is a printed piece filled in.
February 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
joostdepuydt.bsky.social
Did you know that you can scroll through our more than 100 sets of letter punches? Every single punch has been digitized in microscopic detail.
#plantinmoretus
#printinghistory
#letterpunches
November 22, 2024 at 6:53 AM
jasonwdean.com
Sharing as you all might find this small database of Italian ex libris stamps helpful in provenance work... hat tip to the inimitable Nick Wilding for pointing it out to me! #BookHistory 📜 #PrintingHistory 📚 archiviopossessori.it/segni-posses...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
svanimpe.bsky.social
#BookHistory #PrintingHistory 📜💙
ceyingst.bsky.social Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · May 3
Somewhat random, but can anyone recommend something to read about the history of chess typography / the printing of chess games/manuals?
May 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
Ukraine’s Literary Legacy in Print 📖🇺🇦

www.instagram.com/reel/DGvSx6K...

#UkrainianLiterature #BookHistory #Philately #StampCollecting #Ukraine #PrintingHistory
March 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
kristofselle.bsky.social
Ever wondered how pressmen and compositors at the early-modern Plantin Press structured their careers? 📘🕰️

Join the University of Antwerp as a PhD fellow and dive into the rhythms of labour between 1580–1840

Apply by 1 July 2026 👇

#PhDPosition #EarlyModern #PlantinPress #PrintingHistory #Antwerp
March 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
🖨️🇦🇹 Celebrating 175 Years of the Austrian State Printing Press! ✉️

www.instagram.com/p/DHZHf7GykH...

#AustrianStamps #StampCollecting #Philately #PrintingHistory #Austria #PostalHeritage
March 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
altibel.bsky.social
#BookHistory #PrintingHistory
leocadogan.com Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · Jan 15
Woodcut device of Leonardus (d.1518) and Lucas (d.1521) Alantsee of Vienna.
Double circle with at centre LA monogram surmounted by cross.
January 15, 2024 at 6:51 PM
richendabrim.bsky.social
#bookhistory #printinghistory
November 5, 2024 at 4:56 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
💷 Celebrating Thomas de la Rue: The Pioneer of Printing & Currency 💡

www.instagram.com/p/DEsTonJu2g...

#Philately #ThomasDeLaRue #GuernseyStamps #PrintingHistory #CurrencyCollectors
January 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
svanimpe.bsky.social
The most elusive of all printed heritage: printed forms. This confession form was pasted in a baptismal ledger from the Brussels parish of Our Lady of Montserrat. 📚 📜 #BookHistory #PrintingHistory #Archives

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A small piece of paper, a printed form filled in by hand, to indicate that Margrita Cordilia has confessed to father Laurentius Wouters of the Society of Jesus on 1 February 1756.
February 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
svanimpe.bsky.social
#PrintingHistory #BookHistory #Engravings #HistoricalOopsie
zannavanloon.bsky.social Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Mar 2
We all slip. In 1591, so did 1 of Mynken Liefrinck’s workmen quite literally. While printing engravings for this edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Jan I Moretus, a stray paper slip seems to have been left between plate & sheet. Its edge blocked ink, leaving a defined unprinted corner.
Detail of an early modern engraving with the corner left unprinted because seemingly a paper slip was between the plate and the paper sheet, as the unprinted area has a rectangular shape. Page in the book with the entire engraving showing an unprinted area in the right corner below. Title page of the book. Printed text surrounded by an engraved border reading ‘P. Ovidius Nasonis Metamorphoses.’ The imprint clarifies the book was published by Jan I Moretus.
March 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
Celebrating the Power of Print: Stamps and “The Praise of Folly”

www.instagram.com/p/DEpsbnPO4X...

#Philately #BookLovers #PrintingHistory
January 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
kresenkernow.bsky.social
Have you had a chance to visit our ‘Cornwall in Print’ exhibition yet?

We love the poster wall upstairs in the Treasures Gallery, which showcases a selection of work by Cornish printers, the letter types they used and the variety of styles chosen by the printers.

#letterpress #printinghistory
May 23, 2026 at 11:01 AM
kresenkernow.bsky.social
Step into Cornwall’s letterpress past in ‘Cornwall in Print’. Learn how type was made, see metal and wood type, and uncover stories of local printers and the women who kept presses alive. Free to visit, with events to follow. #cornwallinprint #printinghistory
April 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM
jeffmakala.bsky.social
Just found this great gilt-stamped cover image of a rotary newspaper press on an 1855 biography of Horace Greeley in the stacks. #bookhistory #printinghistory
Gilt stamped book cover image of a large rotary newspaper press with four men feeding paper into it.
July 29, 2026 at 4:54 PM
altibel.bsky.social
Book Launch for 'Printing Colour 1700–1830' edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage.
🕓 29 May, online 16:00-17:30 BST. #BookHistory #PrintingHistory
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book Launch for Printing Colour 1700–1830
www.sas.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
ducollections.bsky.social
💀 Discover a skeleton working a printing press in the Peter Isaac Collection! Peter Isaac, an engineer turned printing enthusiast, focused on the English provincial book trade. The collection is being catalogued — more surprises to come! #RareBooks #PrintingHistory #Archives
Printed illustration of a skeleton operating a printing press. 
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
rebpaf.bsky.social
Did you know #REBPAF also has a very active Instagram? 📸✨

Follow @rebpaf.network for more visuals, updates & fun, interesting videos! 📚📽

#MSCA #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #PrintingHistory #ManuscriptHistory #Booksky
September 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
📖✨ Celebrating the Legacy of Ivan Fyodorov: Russia’s Printing Pioneer

www.instagram.com/reel/DESjIEO...

#IvanFyodorov #RussianHistory #StampCollecting #Philately #PrintingHistory #TheBookInTheRenaissance #AndrewPettegree #HistoricalStamps #KnowledgeRevolution #RareStamps
January 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
pageandpostage.bsky.social
From Scroll to Script: Belarusian Book Printing Through the Ages ✒️📚✉️

www.instagram.com/p/DIg-Y_qOgx...

#BelarusStamps #PrintingHistory #PhilatelyMeetsHistory #FrancyskSkaryna #PrintingRevolution #EarlyModernEurope #StampCollectors #ElizabethEisenstein #CulturalHeritage #Bibliophiles
April 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
onslies.bsky.social
I do apologise to society at large, I think the reason the scientists haven't yet made teleportation devices publicly available is because I'd abuse them to just spend every weekend in this paradise of a museum.

Anyway, you should all go though. #BookHistory #PrintingHistory
joostdepuydt.bsky.social Joost Depuydt @joostdepuydt.bsky.social · Mar 30
Are you still looking for a nice activity to escape the unpredictable April weather? Then you will certainly find something to your liking in the Plants of Plantin exhibition at Museum Plantin-Moretus.

#plantenvanplantijn #museumplantinmoretus
March 30, 2026 at 7:13 PM
carinr.bsky.social
A book I am buying immediately: www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/...

I watched some videos of conference presentations that were part of this project when preparing my printing history course and they were excellent.

#printinghistory #bookhistory
FROM JIKJI TO GUTENBERG: THE ORIGINS OF BOOK PRINTING FROM MOVEABLE METAL TYPE by Cathleen A. Baker, eds Randy Silverman on Oak Knoll
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2026. 10 x 7 inches hardcover, sewn 672 pages ISBN: 9781940965390
www.oakknoll.com
June 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM