The book also offers fresh insight into how early modern #printers and book trade agents are remembered today.
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A must read for #BookHistorians and anyone curious about the hidden figures of #EarlyModern #PrintCulture!
Help please #palaeography #bookhistorians - what is the word beginning with c and ending with in after book? It's from 1519 from the Edinburgh Hammermen books, and clearly refers to purchase of the book they're using:
'Item for this buk c[??]in paper and bynding xjs ijd'
On vous parle de Paris : Maspero. Les mots ont un sens (Chris Marker, dir. 1970 ; sous-titres IT) ; pour @anthonyglinoer.bsky.social parmi d’autres 🗃️ #skystorians et #bookhistorians www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or9a...
Some #bookhistorians need to get together and write a piece for a Florida newspaper about how much banning/decrying books has historically served to galvanize interest in them. See "Banned in Boston" 🙄 (not that I think this would make much of a difference...)
#medievalsky #bookhistorians Is there anyone here with ties to the library at the University of Basel, and in particular to the Comites Latentes collection? I have a #sferaproject question about one of their manuscripts but I seem to have been emailing into the abyss.
#bookhistorians I am looking for a few readings/resources on manuscripts and print (?) in Gaza. I want to add a session to my Eurasian Histories of the Book class. I've found the article by Schidorsky and the digitization projects. Any further suggestions?
Hey #bookhistorians and #twitterstorians - were books entered into the Stationers' Register before or after publication/printing? Or both?
