In this copy (call number 7A3891), you can see a piece of paper that probably came from an English-language bookseller's catalogue. It mentions works by Byron and a work attributed to Byron, The Vampyre, but which was actually written by John Williams Pilodori. #maculature #earlyprintedbooks

French legal text from 1618, bound in a parchment page from a 100 year older Book of Hours, probably published in Paris.

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Just acquired a 1639 Antwerp edition of The Life of Sancia Carrillo, a mystical daughter of Córdoba, written by Jesuit Martín de Roa. Bound in reused parchment from a medieval choirbook—vibrant initials, neumes, and history in one hand-sized gem. #bookhistory #maculature

A beautiful example of book history: a 1585 anti-Jesuit polemic from La Rochelle, bound in a reused parchment leaf—maculature—from an incunable concordance printed by Johann Mentelin (Strasbourg, 1474). Early recycling meets religious controversy! #BookHistory #Incunabula #Maculature

This 16th-century edition of Cicero’s De finibus bonorum et malorum (ca. 1580) is bound in a fascinating piece of medieval recycling: a 12th-century manuscript fragment in proto-Gothic script. A stunning example of how centuries-old texts found new life in the book trade! #BookHistory #Maculature