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#WAGPCS Smith - Garrick’s book plate urges the (in Latin, of course) reader to finish quickly & return the volume to its owner.
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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#WAGPCS Smith issue: you can paste bookplates into later books, eg Garrick’s into Bram Stoker’sPersonal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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#WAGPCS Smith: falling ill in Munich, Garrick write his own epitaph, as one does.
November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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#WAGPCS I’m not sure why I’m surprised but the invitation Garrick’s funeral is gorgeous
November 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Q. What has Smith found about Garrick’s reading practices, eg marginalia, etc. #WAGPCS 1/2
November 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Bibliographic temptations. The slide sitting on the screen during the #WAGPCS q&a lists locations of titles. 1/2
November 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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A. Very few annotations. We don’t know if he read closely or at all. The library could be an imitation of aristocratic ones #WAGPCS 2/2
November 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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So many libraries, so little time. Eg @bostonathenaeum has Garrick’s The Woman of Honour (1768) attributed to Cleland #WAGPCS 2/2
November 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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Listening to DavidGants @rarebookschool @floridastate “DescriptiveBibliography:Putting theBookBack inBookHistory" #WAGPCS @librarycongress
November 27, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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Lots of wonderful points about the importance of DescriptiveBibliography some of my favorites: #WhatWouldBowersDo #WAGPCS 1/n
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Gants pts out the synergies of quasi-facsimile transcription & @TEIconsortium compliant #xml #WAGPCS 3/n
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Gants: "printers & booksellers sometimes lie; books do not"; "By writing des bib, you learn what you think" #WAGPCS 2/n
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Gants: collation formula as efficient means of communicating information #WAGPCS 3/3
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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#wagpcs "Naked Truth Needs No Shift" may be my new favorite pamphlet title
November 27, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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1st #WAGPCS of 2016 @footnotesrising "Samuel Wetherill's Self-Publishing, Or; Quaker Disownment & Politics of Print in 1790s Philadelphia"
November 27, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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#wagpcs talk Marija Dalbello @RutgersCommInfo "The Making of Presence through Sensations & Illusions: 'Picturization' in Photoplay Novels"
November 26, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Looking forward to Jessica Brantley @Yale "Medieval Mediations: Late #Medieval Parchment Rolls of Hours" #wagpcs
November 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley reminds us that "media" has a long history, predating #C20 "new media"
November 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: Guillory positions the #EarlyModern as the 1st "major practice of remediation" w/ printing press https://t.co/eKH2L4LUOx
November 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: Yet what of the shift from scroll to codex? The shift from script to print often makes us view ms as an origin, not middle
November 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: Nice shout out to @alanyliu Voice of the Shuttle
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: the codex looks to the past, drawing on past mediums (eg stone, papyrus), as well as to the future (eg print)
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: Case studies: how do #medieval scrolls highlight the codex as a moment remediation in histories of media
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: #medieval rolls, although not dominant or new, offered features not in the codex. 1/3
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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#WAGPCS Brantley: Music rolls may have been easier to transport & did not need pages turned. 2/2
November 26, 2024 at 2:06 PM