Glad to see it's arrived safely!

Its reserved (The postage will cost more than the book lol, will write something up tomorrow when I'm at my desk...)

A shed snakeskin in tissue paper on the title page of Hemingway's A Farewall to Arms.

I have found many things in books, snakeskin is a first though...

5 smiling faces in convivial setting.

Viva'd! With no corrections!

come listen to and help me work through many complicated thoughts about the relations between (New) Bibliography and Theory! And of course stay for brilliant work by everyone else :)

The background is a bright magenta. At the center, there is a rounded rectangle with a white and pink gradient. On the left, a large pale pink circle contains the word "BIBLIO" in bold, outlined letters. Next to it, the word "GRAPHY" is in a large bold pink font, with the word "Queer" above it. A black circle in the bottom right corner contains the text "Registration required!" Below the central rectangle, in white text on the magenta background, is "QUEER BIBLIOGRAPHY IN THE SOUTH

Pink text on a white background with information about the Queer Bibliography in the South hybrid conference from 12 to 14 March 2026

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required.

🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio

Tim Barrett talks about how a fingerprint in paper inspired him to be a historical papermaker in the conclusion to European Hand Papermaking. I also wonder (tangentially) if there are instances in bibliomysteries?

I think the only great light sheet I've used was the NoUVIR Transilluminator, but I don't think they're in production anymore. I've tried a lot of different conservation-grade light sheets which blast the light of the sun into your irises, so I just use my own basic A4 sheet from an art supply shop.

'Ideally, time in bibliography is no object, and if a certain task of large dimensions needs doing, it is worth a lifetime.'

I'm going to start citing Bowers whenever I'm asked to produce a timeline for a grant application.

The survey is live until 12 February; please take a moment to comment.

filled out the horrible settlement consultation and I’m sorry, the question that is framed as a negative so that you have to ‘strongly disagree’ with something not happening?? This has enraged me

Poster for a public lecture in early modern studies. Two talks are listed: Down and Out in Late-Tudor London: Elizabethan Authorship and a history of the hustle (Matt Ryan) & Slop: Writing as excrement from Gutemberg to Chat GPT (Sam Bailey). The evemt is 5-7pm 19 February.

A reminder that next week I'll be speaking alongside @heggledepeg.bsky.social at @keelrowbooks.bsky.social. There will be wine and hand-press era books in ample supply.

RSVP: www.tixtree.com/e/seminar-in...

A printed alphabet of Roman letters, with their proportions in geometric charts.

Gawking at this 1611 alphabet

Assembling my first catalogue has made me realise I have a type: obscure 17th-18thc novels in questionable bindings.

Thanks! It's s.bailey4@ncl.ac.uk

Are there any Leverhulme/BA postdocs on here that would be willing to share their successful application with me? All disciplines welcome!

Thanks Liam, your article on Arc was very helpful for chapter 4!

Thanks Dylan!!

Fspiece cleanly offset to facing title.

Some very clean offsetting in a Huguenot Utopian novel.

Thanks Alice! I ended up looking at Sloane's erotic books in the last chapter and your book helped a lot!

Thanks Deidre! Our conversation some time ago in Stirling about it-narratives ended up framing the thesis...

Thanks Sarah! It's been a long time since I talked about hot noblemen at QB1...

Thanks Sarah, your article on the private case helped the last chapter a lot!

Title page of Erotic Books in Eighteenth-Century England (by me)

Table of contents

Thesis submitted! 🍾🍾🍾

If you'd like to read something that contains both bibliographical formulae and discussions of rimming, then it may be for you!

Grey Paper wraps of 'The Phantom Rickshaw' illustrated with a skeletral ghost.

I wouldn't normally go to bat for Kipling but the pictorial paper wraps on this 1st British ed of 'The Phantom Rickshaw' are just tremendous.

Link: keelrowbooks.com/item/14704/t...

Title page of The Dog Owner's Handbook by Fredson Thayer Bowers

@elizaaudacis.bsky.social has returned from the US with perhaps the best belated Christmas gift I could ask for: a crisp first edition of Fredson Bowers' 'Dog Owner's Handbook'.

Hitting the road for the first book fair of 2026...

Join us this weekend for the January York book fair, a bite sized version of the well loved September fair 👇🏽

Sat 10th Jan 10am - 4.30pm Knavesmire Suite, York Racecourse, YO23 1EX. For free tickets & more, visit yorkbookfair.com

Poster reads: Public lecture in early modern studies. (Title 1) 'Down and out in late-Tudor London: Elizabethan authorship and a history of the hustle' - Matt Ryan. (Title 2) 'Slop: writing as excrement from Gutenberg to ChatGPT' Free drinks reception and showcase of antiquarian books. 5-7pm 19 Feb.

On February 19 I'll be speaking alongside the excellent @heggledepeg.bsky.social at @keelrowbooks.bsky.social about aspects of early modern book history.

I'm truly hoping to supply quality slop for the hogs.

If you're in the area, you can sign-up here: www.tixtree.com/e/seminar-in...

Applications due January 16th!

Apply for research fellowships at Houghton Library! Work with collections including Printing & Graphic Arts! Bother me irl with your ideas, questions, and quandaries! (It’s not a bother.)

Link: www.abebooks.co.uk/Loimologia-H...