Leah PriceAnyone else privileged to spend summer trudging from one #SpecialCollections library to another: your annual reminder to rate the chairs. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c9oHTEj8OPXbzCJJsyPvYN4vI_lYPwvyViO6VLhcO30/edit?usp=sharing #BookHistory #GLAM #ergonomics
Daniel BellingradtAnother Arion on the dolphin, another century. This was the colophon of Samuel Buckley, bookseller, at the Dolphin, St Paul's Churchyard, London. #bookhistory
Jens MittelbachAhead of Print in BFP: Review of Karolin Bove’s study on Reclam Verlag under National Socialism. Vodosek discusses Bove’s exhaustive reconstruction of Reclam’s strategies, constraints and ideological positioning in the Nazi era. #bookhistory #Reclam #Nazism #publishing
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/bfp-2025-0063/html
The library was not yet a third space of meeting and collaborating but a place where books were hidden. #bookhistory
pablolarah◼️ Typography Tuesday
by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee #uwm
Set of #initials used by #TheodoreLowDeVinne‘s (1828-1914) #DeVinnePress in New York in the early 20th century.
#Typography
#typetuesday
#Type
#bookhistory
#20thcenturytype
#decorativeinitials
https://uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/816433748740538368/typography-tuesday
Fabienne GallaireAu musée de la Pharmacie de Bâle, qu'on me recommande chaudement (le plus ancien d'Europe), un bel exemplaire de Micrographia nova (1687), montrant des cirons du fromage, chers à Pascal.
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#histnat #bookhistory #histsci #histtech
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#histnat #bookhistory #histsci #histtech
AnnaDoes anyone have recommendations for the best laser cutter settings for making letterpress woodcuts? I am using Lightburn software. I am trying to replicate some 18c woodcuts. #letterpress #bookhistory
You already know that scanning fingers and #scanninghands exist within the skies of #bookhistory, but here comes the first scanning wristwatch:
