Tentatively exploring the idea of remounting the landmark exhibition Marks in Books for its 40th anniversary next year and if I do I will definitely be shouting "Make way for the MiBs!" anytime I push the booktruck holding them somewhere. #bookhistodon https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:fhcl.hough:40935393

Dans le Décaméron de Boccace, 2e journée, 10e nouvelle, est mentionné (dans la traduction que j'écoute) “un de ces calendriers qu'on *imprimait* autrefois à Ravenne, à l'usage des enfants qui apprennent à lire.”

Sauf que Boccace vit un siècle avant l'invention de Gutenberg.

Un calendrier gravé sur une planche et dont on tire des affiches ? Non car, poursuit ma traduction, “Ce petit *livre* lui fournissait chaque jour un nouveau saint…”

Qu'est-ce que c'est ? On en a conservé ? #bookhistodon

The initial P is for Perching Bird!

Fol. 78r in a thirteenth-century #manuscript Bible of Museum Plantin-Moretus (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:13971814/E)

#bookhistodon #bookhistory

European #BookHistodon buds: if someone from continental Europe says they are a book “restorer,” should this be assumed to be a synonym for what is in English a book “conservator”? Or is there the same philosophical difference of “make it look new” vs. “stabilize it sympathetically”?

So fascinating to see preparatory manuscripts for printing. This one written by a professional scribe for Cornelius Kiliaan was intended to be printed in the Officina Plantiniana around c. 1600. It demonstrates how meticulously such manuscripts were revised. On one page, Kiliaan, for example, made an annotation in the margins that his epigram should be placed elsewhere in the book.

Museum Plantin-Moretus: M 14.2 (https://anet.be/record/opacmpm/c:lvd:13282193/E)
#BookHistory #Bookhistodon

Got to see the most amazing drawings that the renowned Baroque painter Rubens made when he was only twelve years (!) old… Can you imagine?!

Museum Plantin-Moretus: PK.OSB.0192 (digital reproduction dams.antwerpen.be/asset/a2FXWNoe…)
#bookhistory #bookhistodon #RareBooks

A slightly belated #introduction...
I'm a librarian with a background in religion, theology, rare books / book history, and pop culture / counterculture studies. I'm currently at work on a book about Gray Barker, a UFO book publisher, author, and hoaxer. Interests include, but are not limited to:
#rarebooks
#bookhistodon
#bookhistory
#bibliodon
#bibliography
#PhilipKDick
#comics
#superheroes
#ufology
#SFF
#sciencefiction
#AncientGeography
#ChristianAnarchism
#AnalogGames
#GameStudies

Big, happy, wonderful news! The book catalog entry and pre-order link for my edited collection, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History, just dropped! https://www.umasspress.com/9781625347190/handwriting-in-early-america/

#handwriting #manuscript #manuscriptstudies #bookhistory #bookhistodon @bookhistodons @litstudies #earlyam #amlit #paleography #bibliodon #bibliography

Big, happy, wonderful news! The book catalog entry and pre-order link for my edited collection, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History, just dropped! #handwriting #manuscript #manuscriptstudies #bookhistory #bookhistodon @bookhistodons @litstudies #earlyam #amlit #paleography #bibliodon #bibliography https://www.umasspress.com/9781625347190/handwriting-in-early-america/

... though I'm a bit worried about the current situation if it's really true that the proportion of women authors in Transactions of #RoyalHistSoc was at its highest in the 1920s.

If true, then this starkly demonstrates the implicit bias (and preference for 'people like us') operating in closed-community journal systems (as #RoyalHistSoc had until allowing direct submissions in 2021)

#histodons #bookhistodon

Sorry, I'm terrible at this tooting thing...forgot me hashtags! #manuscript #manuscriptstudies #bookhistory #bookhistodon #paleography #mediahistory #EarlyAmerica #litstudies

#bookhistodon #bookhistodons #bookhistory #manuscript #manuscriptstudies #handwriting #EarlyAmerica

@Jen @mazdam

My examples come from Philosophical Transactions (a v diff sort of periodical...)

1) In the 18thC, there weren't reprints, but there were 'abridgements'. By squeezing 21 volumes of back run into just 3 vols in 1705-8, entrepreneurial third-parties made the contents vastly more available. There may have been twice as many copies of the abridgements in circulation as the originals. More abridgements followed, to 1809 (see pp.133ff of our book https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/187262 )
#bookhistodon