Photo collage of letterpress prints by Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Wolfproof Press), consisting of many bright and color poster-sized prints about social justice, letterpress, trans rights, hope, and critical tech

Photo collage of letterpress prints by Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Wolfproof Press), consisting of many bright and color poster-sized prints about social justice, letterpress, trans rights, hope, and critical tech

Photo collage of bright colorful zine covers from zines by Amanda Wyatt Visconti (ZineBakery.com) or Visconti and collaborators. There are 7 zines on letterpress learning and maintenance topics, captioned "Peer-reviewed, Spring 2026 academic journal publication of free letterpress tutorial zines emphasizing accessibility, by me (top 4 zines = 148 pages!)" As well as 4 zines on adjacent book history and book arts topics, captioned "Already released, free book arts/history zines (by me, or by me as lead+collaborators)". Zines can be found at ZineBakery.com/homemade.

Photo collage of various lasercutter letterpress work in progress and completed, by me. Caption: "Examples of my lasercut letterpress work: movable type (wood typehigh, acrylic typehigh & mounted versions); typehigh acrylic image cuts; birch hebrew catchword; trans & historical lasercut printing blocks"

Hi friends! I post
🌈tech/culture/justice intersections
💾book-adjacent code+data (human+labor 1st)
🎨making+craft (letterpress/zine/laser/retro tech)
🎓🦮DH research center directing (ScholarsLab.org)

ZineBakery.com distro/catalog/research; EnthusiasticType.com digi #BookHist; WolfproofPress.com prints

Hey #BookHist folks - I have a vague memory that someone was doing work on early modern dedications? I've got a colleague who is trying to make sense of an early 19th c dedication* and I was wondering if looking at the work on EM dedications might give him some insights. Any recs? 1/2

I collect my digital+analog #bookhist +arts projects @ EnthusiasticType.com:
*Limited Letterpress: tools for not-enough-type
*Queer Book History zine (@sharpnews.bsky.social collab)
*TBA zines for letterpress financial/physical/+ accessibility
Broken Wood Type, DIY Queer Historical Letterpress, blog

Q for my #HistSTM and #BookHist friends - the right hand illustration here of an insect on a flower looks really familiar. I am sure it’s a style used in late 19/early 20thc children’s book but I can’t place it- any ideas? 🗃️

Morteza Lak, “Print Culture and the Composition of a Visual Anthology: The Picturesque Beauties of Shakespeare (1783-1787)"
muse.jhu.edu/article/970063
#shakespeare #bookhist #printculture

Some past SHARP #bookhist bibliographies, if you dug the new LGBTQIA+ one: "Disability+Accessibility in Book Studies" by @bibliowingate.bsky.social & @ellenforget.bsky.social w/Taylor Hare contrib; "Sonic, Electronic, & Digital Book History" by @bibliowingate.bsky.social & @ellenforget.bsky.social +

Screenshot of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

#ICYMI free "Queer Book History" zine is out! Built on the great new LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography (led by @bibliowingate.bsky.social), by me + Alex, @nicolekeller.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social +rest of the LGBTQIA+ #BookHist Bib team. A free, printable 32-page research+teaching resource:+

Double Page from Cod. Sang. 51. On the verso, a highly decorated cross-carpet page. On the recto, it says XPI AUTEM GENERATIO SIC ERAT. The words are written in a highly ornate fashion.

I found myself admiring the Irish Gospels of St. Gall for a very long time today. The photo doesn't do this magnificent piece of art justice. Catch the Words on the Wave exhibition if you can.
#medievalsky #bookhist

attending a virtual event about the history of women in a certain book trade institution; event opens with an absolutely phenomenal presentation from a woman historian and her careful, diligent (&brilliant) work uncovering evidence of women in trade. this was followed by.... #bookhist #skystorians

Good #histsex / #bookhist / #histmed news on a cold morning. H/t @drsyntax.bsky.social

I always loved the #bookhist and #badjoke posts of Marsh’s on that other platform. And now they’re here. Give em a follow!

I'm really fascinated by the widespread practice in Egyptology and some other fields of these handwritten published manuscripts. I wonder if anyone in #bookhist has done work on the practice?

Lovely bit of #entomology #histsci #bookhist
Led me to look up book 'worms' and find also Booklice, Warehouse moth, Museum beetle, Drugstore beetle, Carpet beetle, Fur beetle, etc, and also the Odd beetle and the poor Confused flour beetle

Words to live by: A Book of Knowledge, 1664 | Scilicet Why were guides to astrology, medical care and agriculture combined in a single book?

Why were guides to astrology, medical care and agriculture combined in a single book? 🌟💊🌾
@jamesafox.bsky.social explores this question in our latest post by telling us about a Book of Knowledge from 1664
#bookhistory #bookhist #17thC #earlymodern
scilicet.org.uk/words-to-liv...

well #bookhist #histbook 🗃️ folk... even the Shakespeare authorship controversy people have jumped over. so we can take this as definitive confirmation that this app has the juice

Students at St Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury, in the 1880s were taught practical skills for the mission field including printing and bookbinding.

[St Augustine's College Diary, 5 February 1887]
⚓ #BookHist

I'm feeling intellectually lazy, so:
Does anyone know of a thesis or study on the libraries of new training colleges for modernising pre-industrial professions in the 19th century. e.g. Medical/legal/military college libraries?
#LibHist #BookHist

I seem to have gained a number of new followers in the last week so I will explain once again something about my Internet presence. I am a notorious #histsci blogger and on social media I post my own blog posts and repost other #histsci content and some #bookhist that I find interesting. /2

More of #thefairjilt by Aphra Behn posted now. Have already lost count of all the plot twists... and we aren't even 1/3 of the way through! #bookhist #17thc #18thc

Anyone in York on Monday and into #18thc 🗃️📚 #bookhist? Cause THIS SOUNDS AMAZING.

Pity there doesn't seem to be a way to view it from afar ☹️. I wanna know everything about Winifred Gales now, from the whole pirate thing to how she ended up in North Carolina(?!?)

Another blog post up @stationerscomms; this time on an 18th-century children’s book in the collections which was owned (and loved to literal pieces) by generations of children from Cumbria in the 18th and 19th centuries. #childrenslit #bookhist

www.stationers.org/news/archive...

We can use hashtags here but do they all get recognized as #hashtags? Let's find out:

#18thc #c18th #bookhist #19thc

It seems like you can't have a #hashtag start with numbers yet???

William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress (1732) and Rake's Progress (1734-35) Locations depicted in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress (1732) and The Rake's Progress (1734-35). Both image series were first made as paintings (although the Harlot's burned in 1755 fire at Fonth...

Looking for a map of the locations in William Hogarth's Harlot and Rake's Progress? I made one at Layers of London.

You'll find links to all kinds of reference materials for each image. Thanks to all you #18thc 🗃️📚 #bookhist fans who helped me figure out the best platform for this idea!

#18thc #bookhist friends, I want to have a map of 1730s London that shows where the scenes in Hogarth's Harlot's and Rake's progresses happen. Does such a thing exist already somewhere? I looked around and couldn't find, so thinking I will maybe build it myself...? 📚🗃️ pls help

Strange nevves from Bartholomew-Fair, or, the wandring-whore discovered her cabinet unlockt, her sec...

TIL that the plot of the Beastie Boys' "She's Crafty" is found in 1691 pamphlet "Strange newes from Bartholomew-Fair, or, the wandring-whore discovered" by Peter Aretine, as the Wandering Whore narrator clears out customers of all their valuables.

#histsex #17thc 📚🗃️ #bookhist #sexworkhistory

(and thanks to @arkhamlibrarian for the history!)

#bookhist

@SHARPorg @SHARPatAHA do we have a good decision on book history hashtags? #bookhistory? Maybe #bookhist like #histsex would make sense? #histbook?