Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/
#victorian #bookhistory
Ex-libris bookplate featuring a shield with a chevron design and two flowers, and a knight’s helmet with plume and a motto banner reading ‘Je suis de Campagnon Bon Seigneur’.
Mystery Bookplate! I’m trying without any luck to identify this bookplate after checking through printed sources and online databases, and would be grateful for any advice! 📖🔎
We are pleased to report that Dr Nicolas Bell’s recent lecture commemorating the centenary of the publication of the Short-Title Catalogue is now available online:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFe...
What a joy to talk about British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical with Miranda on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I hope you'll check it out! #18thcentury #WomensHistoryMonth #regency #bookhistory #JaneAusten @hopkinspress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/british-wome...
The Atlas of Early Printing has a new URL at the Folger. 📜 #BookHistory
atlas.folger.edu
Hey #bookhistory and #dresshistory peeps: who has written about clothing (linens, recycling) and papermaking together in a way that would be accessible to an educated general audience (my paper-obsessed mature students)?
On artists’ book as vehicle for weird, wonderful, and expansive rarity!
Medieval monks in Easter Ross – and not the Hebridean island of Iona – may have created the intricately decorated Book of Kells, according to researchers. A new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack
#medievalsky #bookhistory
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.
Applications due 21 April
More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
I should probably wait until the weekend is over to post this, but I've been reading a lot of 19thc printer's manuals lately and they say surprisingly little about how copy text was marked up for the printer (beyond complaining about receiving awful manuscripts) — does anyone know about this?
NEW FEATURES ARTICLE
Anastasia Armendariz, "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books."
Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#RareBooks #SpecialCollections #Affect #ArtistsBooks #Collecting #BookArts #BookHistory
NEW FEATURES ARTICLE
Leah Tether, "In Defence of Publishing before Print."
Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Manuscript #Publishing #Medieval
🚨JOB KLAXON! The Winterthur Library is hiring a collections processor for the manuscript collection! secure10.saashr.com/ta/6002811.c...
Welcome @jochargrave.bsky.social !!!
REMINDER
Help us build the SHARP 2025 Annual Bibliography!
Submit citation information for titles you published/contributed to/edited (etc) in 2025 that are "book historical" (think broadly!)
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I just signed to edit a new strand for Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture called "Periodicals and Print Matter." More details to follow but I look forward to your ideas on anything connected to periodicals, catalogues, zines, and ephemera.
www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
An etching of a printing press with inking balls (dabbers). It in inside a frame, and has the text: Ex Fumo in Lucem
A pretty portrait of a printing press in this prologue of Saavedra's "Idea de un principe politico christiano: rapresentada en cien empresas." En Monaco : [s.n.], 1640.
Digital copy at Hathi - hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ar... #BookHistory #PrintingPress
It is so amazing to me that things like this have survived so long and are still being found. #BookHistory
Submit citation information for your 2025 publications to be included in the SHARP News 2025 Bibliography!
#BookHistory #Bibliography
My article "'rather ridicule than censure': Lady Caroline Lamb, Frances Arabella Rowden, and the Art of Respectability" is out now in Literature Compass.
#CarolineLamb #Romanticism #criticalbibliography #bookhistory #womenwriters
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The face of the punch of Baskerville’s 16pt roman capital S
The digitisation of the Baskerville punches is a really great resource. John Dreyfus’s account of their history is well worth a read too! They travelled all over France before ending up back in England.
#typography #bookhistory
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
Join the Bookselling Research Network on Friday, March 13th for what will be a fascinating talk by Sarah Harkness: Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers built a Publishing Powerhouse booksellingresearchnet.uk/event/harkne... #bookhistory #publishing
#BookHistory mutuals, pls do your magic. A student in my seminar is looking for sources on fingerprints in books. Other than Darnton's reference to inky fingerprints left on the plates of the Encyclopedie, & Folger blog posts by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, I'm short of ideas. Do you have any? THX!
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
