A new addition to my Plantin collection. This beautiful binding by Jaak Mössly (bookbinder) and F. Beates (engraver) from Antwerp.
Gifted as a first price for the Middle School for Young Ladies in 1892.
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IT'S BOOK AUCTION DAY!
No reserve, antiquarian book auctions, ending from 8pm (UK time)
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printed on cream-colored paper. In the center: "The Child's Friend and Youth's Magazine. Terms--$1.50 per annum, in advance. Postage--half a cent each No." The words are framed by an elaborate border. Background of the wide border: vines, flowers, and the faces of children. Against the border are 8 vignettes. Top: a white woman sits in a chair with a baby on her lap, listening as a boy standing in front of her reads from a book; behind him two girls are seated. Left, top to bottom: two boys fly a kite; a girl jumps rope; three boys sail a toy boat in a pool of water. Right, top to bottom: a girl watches two girls play with a small hoop; two boys fish; two girls play badminton. Bottom: a boy and girl plant seeds. On either side of the bottom vignette are a globe, books, a kite, a top, a model sailboat, and a cricket bat. Below the bottom border: "Published by Leonard C. Bowles, 111, Washington-street, Boston."
Birthday wishes for Anne Wales Abbott, born #otd in 1808, editor of The Child's Friend (1843-1858)! #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory
Detail of the provenance mark reading: Catrina Leoners hoort dit bouck toe, die het vindt die doet haer weer om een appel of een peer die het en doet
First page in the manuscript with a decorated letter A in blue and red and border decoration in green and red
Finder’s fee: seasonal fruit.
Early modern provenance mark on the flyleaf in a 16th-century illuminated manuscript: ‘This book belongs to Catrina Leoners. Whoever finds it should return it to her for an apple or a pear…’
#rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜
📜 Discover a stunning “perfected” copy of the 1509 Richard Cœur de Lion edition, where medieval legend meets early print culture. A fascinating glimpse into how history and romance intertwined in one iconic text. Read more in our latest blog post by Alena Minko (Bristol)!
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory
A page from Hieronymus Brunschwig's "Das new Distilier-Buch" (1537) with the highlighted image and a text part.
And here is the page with this great detail in full glory, for friends of #earlymodern #bookhistory:
Interesting to read Vivian McAlister's (@westernuhistory.bsky.social) Abraham Groves bio today. Years ago I found this copy of Groves' 1930 poetry chapbook "Stray Thoughts" at a thrift store in Arnprior, ON - a poem for "Pretty Polly" but naught for the alligator 😞 #cdnhist #canlit #bookhistory
A small carbonized scroll of papyrus. It looks like a little blackened log. The layers of the papyrus are visible at one end. Another more battered scroll is in the background.
Four carbonized scrolls of papyrus in a glass case. They bear a certain resemblance to coprolites.
There’s a symposium at my university on using technology to read carbonized scrolls found at Herculaneum. Remarkably, they were able to include four of the scrolls; it’s the first time they’ve left Europe.
#BookHistory #Papyrology
Typos aren’t just errors—they’re history, humor, and sometimes…scandal. 👀
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#BookTok #PublishingIndustry #BookHistory #Bookstagram #EditingLife #Proofreading #WritersOfInstagram #BookNerd #LiteraryHistory
You call it a manuscript reading room, I call it a BOOK CASTLE!
Reminds me of the Medieval Latin proverb: Claustrum sine armario est quasi castrum sine armamentario! #bookhistory #medievalsky
Experts of #bookhistory and #libraryhistory might have spotted as well the prominent library stamp in the right corner: #LibraryStampMadness
Photo of the double spread of an open book of printed music, over which have been trodden cat-sized paw prints in ink. Reference: Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, F. 1756 A LP, "Tomus secundus psalmorum selectorum" (Nürnberg, 1539).
Attention #earlyModern #bookHistory and #earlyMusic types!
You have to the end of the week to register for the @dormeme16.bsky.social conference Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe, at KCL. Registration and the brilliant programme are at www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...
For those who can read Arabic, this will be a brilliant course #skystorians #bookhistory #manuscripts
The man from the image at a writing desk.
The quill using and multitasking writing man, also called Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, bishop, and some more. #bookhistory
You may find a digital copy of "Das Buch der haymlichkeiten Magni Alberti" over here: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/b...
New, antiquarian book auctions, starting tonight from 8pm
#antiquarian #history #books #maps #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #travel #science #maps #religion #philosophy #maps #bookauctions
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printed on beige paper. The cover of the magazine for October 1870. A white woman sits in an armchair, with two young boys and a little girl looking at something on her lap. At her feet, a girl and a boy read a book together. They are in a room with a window seat beneath a window through which a tree is visible. On the floor is a toy drum with two drumsticks. The scene is framed by fines and flowers, with the words "The Children's Hour" above the figures. Below the figures are the words "A Magazine for the Little Ones. Edited by T. S. Arthur." It is printed by T. S. Arthur & Sons, 809 & 811 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The illustration is signed by the engraver: Lauderbach. At the top of the page, the original owner's name is handwritten: Miss Clara Kiliam.
for #magazineMonday, The Children's Hour (1867-1874), edited by temperance favorite T. S. Arthur (author, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There) #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines
The recorded seminar is now available on @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social YT channel: youtu.be/MtPgTTuQaLA?... #EarlyModern #JewishEthnographies #JewishHistory #Antisemitism #BookHistory
#BookHistory observations for Easter: my church clearly sings from the same section of the hymnal during the holy water sprinkling every Easter because those 5 pages are all wavy from the water droplets drying!
1574
1658
1722
1837
Depictions of the resurrection of Christ in 4 centuries of Plantin Press Missals!
1574,1658,1722,1837
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#plantin
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Sure, antebellum Gift Books are neat and all, but when granny sends you the 1829 Atlantic Souvenir and the return address is some weird hotel in Colorado, it’s probably best to mail it back unopened.
Source: Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, USC 🗃️ #bookhistory
Image shows the covers of pts 1 and 2 of the new vol. 1 of The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland
Congratulations to the editors and all who contributed to this long-awaited first vol (2 pts) of the History of the Book in Scotland! Great achievement. Proud to be included on Esther Inglis in pt.2, with her portrait highlighting the cover of pt.1.
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Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week.
Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time)
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Thieving paratextual #bookhistory as it happens.
The nerve of the VP and his publishers.
ANNALS of SCOTTISH PRINTING 1507-17thC LTD ED Signed 1890 DICKSON & EDMOND
#books #antiquarian #Scotland #printing #history #Scottish #printhistory #bookhistory #Edinburgh #Glasgow #16thcentury #17thcentury #bookauction
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