Amazing spreadsheet of #c19am booksellers compiled by #rbs13 scholar-Would love to map the data but not sure he’s interested in sharing
Really enjoyed “Farewell etaoin shrdlu” in #rbs13 class-anyone know how one can get a copy of this for classroom use? Seems hard to find...
Re:that Twain ad. Wonder what Twain would make of all the #royalbaby hype in the U.S. today-He’s Prince *George*, for goodness’ sake! #rbs13
#C19am ad for Twain’s Connecticut Yankee-“A Keen & Powerful Satire on English Nobility & Royalty…Appeals to All True Americans” #rbs13
Love learning new technical terms. From Winship’s time working in a bindery: EXPULP (Excised or Pasted Under Lining Paper) #rbs13
Winship: you’d put a nice binding on a <corr>pre-</corr>#c19am book when you decided to save it-you’d add a bespoke leather coffin #rbs13
Show & tell as we discuss #c19am illustrations today at #rbs13. Woodcuts, illustrated books, & steel engravings circulating the room...
Winship’s point that we ignore humanness of #C19am industrial tech applies also to tech today-the machines are us-for good & ill #rbs13
Winship: making paper, making type, & (let’s not forget) making the printing machines all required human labor in the industrial age #rbs13
Michael Winship reminds our #rbs13 class that we mustn’t ignore the lives of the many “hands” who made “machine-printed” books in #c19am
I would ask what the hashtag for @rarebookschool 13 will be, but looking around the room I suspect I’d be the lone tweeter… #rbs13