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Raised Bands Are Sexy; or, A Primer on Bookbindings
Tomorrow I am going to see the Morgan Library’s exhibit Protecting the Word, which presents the collection’s most noteworthy bookbindings. To familiarize myself with the essential terminol… more →
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An Archeology of Medieval Bookbinding
anneburbage wrote 2 months ago: In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior decoratio … more →
A short history of the paperback in the UK
anneburbage wrote 3 months ago: Nicholas Clee in the Times provides an interesting overview of the history of the paperback in the U … more →
Adopt a book...
anneburbage wrote 4 months ago: If you love books, why not adopt a book through the British Library? … more →
Raised Bands Are Sexy; or, A Primer on Bookbindings
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legendumst wrote 11 months ago: Tomorrow I am going to see the Morgan Library’s exhibit Protecting the Word, which presents th … more →
Bookporn at the Morgan
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: If this blog had webcam access, you could watch your humble host drooling over the prospect of visi … more →
Medieval Reading, Islam and the Qur'an
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: By the end of the 8th century, the Islamic world stretched from Kabul and Samarkand in the East to C … more →
Reading in the Early Middle Ages
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: Nama min is mære, / hæleþum gifre ond halig sylf. “Say who I am–glorious, useful to men, … more →
Writing History
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: The Education of Henry Adams is a part autobiographical, part historical, part philosophical narrati … more →
The Old Deal
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: This is no time for the collector to quit his books. He may have to quit his house, abandon his trip … more →
Reading in Ancient Rome
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: If you read Latin, you may have noticed that the title of my blog is derived from the Latin phrase … more →
The Shelf and the Spine
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: Henry Petroski in The Book on the Bookshelf explains why shelving books vertically with their spine … more →
The Digital Library
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: I may have mentioned Robert Darnton’s article “The Library in the New Age” before … more →
A History of Cheap Books, Part II: The Poets of John Bell
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: In an earlier post I sketched some of the milestones in cheap book publishing. Another cheap-book br … more →
The English Common Reader from 1500 to 1800
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: I have started reading The English Common Reader by the late Richard D. Altick, a landmark study in … more →
The Ladder to Heaven
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legendumst wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times features an article on the Putnam Rolling Ladder Company, manufacturers of librar … more →
The Library in the New Age
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: We are living in the Age of Information, and Nicholas Carr, among others, has made the case that the … more →
A History of Cheap Books
legendumst wrote 1 year ago: The history of reading is intricately linked to the history of the book. Only when books became a co … more →
