We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship
#historyofthebook #bookhistory
#historyofthebook #bookhistory
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We're so excited to welcome our new cohort of History of the Book students! In Week 1, they will delve into artists' books, bookbinding, and textual scholarship
#historyofthebook #bookhistory
#historyofthebook #bookhistory
Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli: Shedding Light on Italian Book History (Lingua Franca, @sharpweb.org; #skystorians, #historyofthebook): sharpweb.org/linguafranca...
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Armando Petrucci and Franca Nardelli: Shedding Light on Italian Book History (Lingua Franca, @sharpweb.org; #skystorians, #historyofthebook): sharpweb.org/linguafranca...
Free stuff!
First batch of items from the Rylands' Early European Print collection is now fully digitised and freely available to explore online via Manchester Digital Collections #EarlyModern #incunabula #TheRylands #HistoryOfTheBook www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
First batch of items from the Rylands' Early European Print collection is now fully digitised and freely available to explore online via Manchester Digital Collections #EarlyModern #incunabula #TheRylands #HistoryOfTheBook www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
Early European Print
Discover globally significant early European print items within our digitised special collections, including rare incunabula and woodblock impressions.
www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Free stuff!
First batch of items from the Rylands' Early European Print collection is now fully digitised and freely available to explore online via Manchester Digital Collections #EarlyModern #incunabula #TheRylands #HistoryOfTheBook www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
First batch of items from the Rylands' Early European Print collection is now fully digitised and freely available to explore online via Manchester Digital Collections #EarlyModern #incunabula #TheRylands #HistoryOfTheBook www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...
Kristina Richardson will trace the journey of printing technology from Romani printers to Gutenberg in our upcoming Director's Seminar.
Book your spot: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/direc...
9 May, 5:30 - 7pm | Online
#BookHistory #CulturalHistory #HistoryoftheBook
Book your spot: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/direc...
9 May, 5:30 - 7pm | Online
#BookHistory #CulturalHistory #HistoryoftheBook
Director's Seminar - 'Book History from the Margins: What Gutenberg Owed to Medieval Romani Printers'
warburg.sas.ac.uk
April 16, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Kristina Richardson will trace the journey of printing technology from Romani printers to Gutenberg in our upcoming Director's Seminar.
Book your spot: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/direc...
9 May, 5:30 - 7pm | Online
#BookHistory #CulturalHistory #HistoryoftheBook
Book your spot: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/direc...
9 May, 5:30 - 7pm | Online
#BookHistory #CulturalHistory #HistoryoftheBook
Revisiting my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Joseph Skloot of @hucjir.bsky.social about his @brandeispress.bsky.social First Impression: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing #BookSky 📚💙 #JewishHistory #Skystorians #EarlyModern #HistoryoftheBook
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023) - New Books Network
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January 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Revisiting my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Joseph Skloot of @hucjir.bsky.social about his @brandeispress.bsky.social First Impression: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing #BookSky 📚💙 #JewishHistory #Skystorians #EarlyModern #HistoryoftheBook
Some pics from this week’s @ies-sas.bsky.social visit to the National Art Library at the V@A (inc. original manuscript copy of Bleak House and an unfinished Book of Hours) #historyofthebook
January 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Some pics from this week’s @ies-sas.bsky.social visit to the National Art Library at the V@A (inc. original manuscript copy of Bleak House and an unfinished Book of Hours) #historyofthebook
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
...but without line-by-line ruling, and yet is as regular as you would wish for this style. In addition to the scribe's skill, I suspect the laid lines help.
#manuscripts #medievalsky #paper #historyofthebook
#manuscripts #medievalsky #paper #historyofthebook
June 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
...but without line-by-line ruling, and yet is as regular as you would wish for this style. In addition to the scribe's skill, I suspect the laid lines help.
#manuscripts #medievalsky #paper #historyofthebook
#manuscripts #medievalsky #paper #historyofthebook
Going to post a video a day from my backlist of #HistoryoftheBook content, many from the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social coffee mornings. First up: the brilliant Richard Lawrence, Master of the Print Workshop, on operating the printing press in the Visiting Scholars Centre
youtu.be/WQ64FAGw-wo
youtu.be/WQ64FAGw-wo
Printing in the Bodleian Library (Richard Lawrence)
YouTube video by Henrike Lähnemann
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Going to post a video a day from my backlist of #HistoryoftheBook content, many from the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social coffee mornings. First up: the brilliant Richard Lawrence, Master of the Print Workshop, on operating the printing press in the Visiting Scholars Centre
youtu.be/WQ64FAGw-wo
youtu.be/WQ64FAGw-wo
Look into the fascinating world of the London book trade 250 years ago.
withinthewallslondon.blogspot.com/2026/09/pate...
#BookHistory #HistoryOfTheBook #PaternosterRow #LondonHistory #EighteenthCentury #PublishingHistory #Booksellers #PrintCulture #GeorgianLondon #LiteraryHistory
withinthewallslondon.blogspot.com/2026/09/pate...
#BookHistory #HistoryOfTheBook #PaternosterRow #LondonHistory #EighteenthCentury #PublishingHistory #Booksellers #PrintCulture #GeorgianLondon #LiteraryHistory
September 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Look into the fascinating world of the London book trade 250 years ago.
withinthewallslondon.blogspot.com/2026/09/pate...
#BookHistory #HistoryOfTheBook #PaternosterRow #LondonHistory #EighteenthCentury #PublishingHistory #Booksellers #PrintCulture #GeorgianLondon #LiteraryHistory
withinthewallslondon.blogspot.com/2026/09/pate...
#BookHistory #HistoryOfTheBook #PaternosterRow #LondonHistory #EighteenthCentury #PublishingHistory #Booksellers #PrintCulture #GeorgianLondon #LiteraryHistory
#Library, #ArtHistory, #Conservation, and #HistoryOfTheBook people, check them out! The strips are very cool, and the tech arm of the team is doing awesome things.
#PublicHumanities #DigitalHumanities #PublicScholarship
#PublicHumanities #DigitalHumanities #PublicScholarship
November 10, 2024 at 3:38 PM
#Library, #ArtHistory, #Conservation, and #HistoryOfTheBook people, check them out! The strips are very cool, and the tech arm of the team is doing awesome things.
#PublicHumanities #DigitalHumanities #PublicScholarship
#PublicHumanities #DigitalHumanities #PublicScholarship
This was fascinating to listen to! Post-Holocaust family, dealing with trauma, but also legal issues, #diaspora and issues about one's own family being entangled, and #familysecrets - remarriages never spoken of and only revealed years later. #australianhistory #jewishdelis #historyofthebook
April 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This was fascinating to listen to! Post-Holocaust family, dealing with trauma, but also legal issues, #diaspora and issues about one's own family being entangled, and #familysecrets - remarriages never spoken of and only revealed years later. #australianhistory #jewishdelis #historyofthebook
#HistoryOfTheBook #HistoriaDelLibro
The Marquis de Lafayette’s personal gift to President George Washington of a drawing of the demolished Bastille. Sold for $1,996,000 😮
www.finebooksmagazine.com/auction-guid...
The Marquis de Lafayette’s personal gift to President George Washington of a drawing of the demolished Bastille. Sold for $1,996,000 😮
www.finebooksmagazine.com/auction-guid...
A Storybook Year
Both Freeman’s and Hindman were among the most respected and successful houses in the category prior to their merger, with a laundry list of auction records and historic results to their names. It was...
www.finebooksmagazine.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
#HistoryOfTheBook #HistoriaDelLibro
The Marquis de Lafayette’s personal gift to President George Washington of a drawing of the demolished Bastille. Sold for $1,996,000 😮
www.finebooksmagazine.com/auction-guid...
The Marquis de Lafayette’s personal gift to President George Washington of a drawing of the demolished Bastille. Sold for $1,996,000 😮
www.finebooksmagazine.com/auction-guid...
I am having way too much fun making these slides. #HistoryOfTheBook
November 9, 2024 at 4:22 AM
I am having way too much fun making these slides. #HistoryOfTheBook
HUGE thanks to everyone who helped me ID some of the Louis Vuitton ad sources. It was so fun! You will be in my #HistoryOfTheBook lecture this week! @astamps21 @KirkDemarais @70sscifi @butcherjpn. And @BLClark @book_historia and @john_overholt whose tweets got me going...
November 9, 2024 at 4:16 AM
HUGE thanks to everyone who helped me ID some of the Louis Vuitton ad sources. It was so fun! You will be in my #HistoryOfTheBook lecture this week! @astamps21 @KirkDemarais @70sscifi @butcherjpn. And @BLClark @book_historia and @john_overholt whose tweets got me going...
What do you think? Good #HistoryOfTheBook class today? One of the great things about collecting is that you can take your own special collections anywhere, any time!
November 9, 2024 at 4:16 AM
What do you think? Good #HistoryOfTheBook class today? One of the great things about collecting is that you can take your own special collections anywhere, any time!
If you teach or study #HistoryOfTheBook, I cannot recommend this enough. It’s really helping me think through the different functions—social, economic, legal, aesthetic, etc.—each part of a book performs. Looking forward to reports from my 15 students on 15 different parts!
November 9, 2024 at 4:09 AM
If you teach or study #HistoryOfTheBook, I cannot recommend this enough. It’s really helping me think through the different functions—social, economic, legal, aesthetic, etc.—each part of a book performs. Looking forward to reports from my 15 students on 15 different parts!
#HistoryOfTheBook #Art Twitter, are there any good articles on the history of sketchbooks? @IconBook_Paper, anyone else?
November 17, 2024 at 5:46 AM
#HistoryOfTheBook #Art Twitter, are there any good articles on the history of sketchbooks? @IconBook_Paper, anyone else?