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Isaac Newton And The Buy-6-get-1-free Offer
An Interesting Book With An Interesting Pedigree My enthusiasm for poring over lists of subscribers is probably almost as great as that of the original subscribers themselves. I am currently...
Isaac Newton And The Buy-6-get-1-free Offer
An Interesting Book With An Interesting Pedigree My enthusiasm for poring over lists of subscribers is probably almost as great as that of the original subscribers themselves. I am currently...
Restoration Comedy: The Highs & Lows of Bookbin...
Cherish your bookbinders: it's even harder than it looks.
Restoration Comedy: The Highs & Lows of Bookbin...
Cherish your bookbinders: it's even harder than it looks.
1616 saw the death of WS and M de C
On 23 April the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers will, for the second time, promote a worldwide series of "pop-up book fairs". In 2015 this initiative, based around UNESCO's World...
1616 saw the death of WS and M de C
On 23 April the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers will, for the second time, promote a worldwide series of "pop-up book fairs". In 2015 this initiative, based around UNESCO's World...
William Morris announces his 'pocket cathedral'...
The Kelmscott Chaucer lends itself to superlatives. The first page is perhaps the most celebrated example of typography in English. It’s certainly the most famous in the context of of...
William Morris announces his 'pocket cathedral'...
The Kelmscott Chaucer lends itself to superlatives. The first page is perhaps the most celebrated example of typography in English. It’s certainly the most famous in the context of of...
Spot the difference (again...)
Roman love poetry this week. These two quarto volumes bound in vellum are both examples of the 1708 Broukhusius edition of Albius Tibullus published in Amsterdam by Johann Heinrich Wettstein...
Spot the difference (again...)
Roman love poetry this week. These two quarto volumes bound in vellum are both examples of the 1708 Broukhusius edition of Albius Tibullus published in Amsterdam by Johann Heinrich Wettstein...
A bibliophile's Theocritus
Greek bucolic poetry this week, and an absolute joy it is, too. The works of Theocritus in quarto, published in Paris in 1561 by Guillaume Morel, who had succeeded Turnebus...
A bibliophile's Theocritus
Greek bucolic poetry this week, and an absolute joy it is, too. The works of Theocritus in quarto, published in Paris in 1561 by Guillaume Morel, who had succeeded Turnebus...