Daniel Bellingradt3d ago
A floral filled initial to make your day. A printed flower within a "U" just because you can, pitch perfect typographic love for the detail. #bookhistory #flowersky
Real SyntacticJun 8

RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/116714641082630807

blue paper=blue stuff=blue furnish=blue linen, evidence of late 15th-century opening up of trade with India, an indigo-growing region. By +/- 200 years later-1860s, indigo grown in the Sea Island region of the US southeast provided the blue of British naval uniforms, the rough cotton-linen clothes worn by enslaved people, and the sugar sacks used in Britain and later the US to house the refined product they grew. And of course they grew the indigo as well. #bookhistory #mediahistory 1/2

Show threadDaniel BellingradtJun 7
This emblematic image is a tiny detail of a larger print, and may be found over here: portraits.hab.de/werk/28614 #bookhistory #earlymodern

Portrait II 3111.2 - Port...
Portrait II 3111.2 - Porträtsammlung der HAB

Leah PriceMay 28
Anyone 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
Rate the library chairs

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Show threadDaniel BellingradtMay 26
Another Arion on the dolphin, another century. This was the colophon of Samuel Buckley, bookseller, at the Dolphin, St Paul's Churchyard, London. #bookhistory
Jens MittelbachMay 24

Ahead 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

Show threadDaniel BellingradtMay 21
The library was not yet a third space of meeting and collaborating but a place where books were hidden. #bookhistory
pablolarahMay 20

◼️ 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 GallaireMay 16
Au 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
AnnaMay 14
Does 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