Suzanne Karr Schmidt

Title page of 1605 first edition first state of Don Quixote with the comma.

Shiny gilt edges showing gap.

Here's the first first title page, and another puzzling view of the books, which I suppose were more aesthetically pleasing (if less structurally sound) with the top edges closer to flush!

Stack of 1605 and 1615 book spines, red leather under the gilt text.

The 10-year gap between installments is already curious (yes, things happen), but that doesn't mean it has to be reflected in both the size of the books AND the binding! 📚

Bottom of 1605 volume with over an inch of unnecessary space and exposed interior spine at the bottom of the binding.

I mean, it's called a HEADBAND for a reason....

Two books bound in the same black gilt tooled leather. One on left MUCH shorter.

Stacked books seen from corner, one on top is tiny, but the binding size is the same.

Choices Were Made*

*Don Quixote came in two parts, 1605 and 1615... Someone REALLY needed their first edition bindings to match! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Ravenlike map.

Bonne question! Voilà la catalogue d'exposition en ligne:
publications.newberry.org/mapping-outs...

Nous avons beaucoup des cartes digitizées ici aussi: collections.newberry.org/C.aspx?VP3=D...

We can map that!

Best new Tumblr: ‘Reasons My Son Is Crying’ “I broke this cheese in half.” “Reasons My Son Is Crying” Tumblr has only been around for one week and is already making the Internet rounds in lightening speed. Why? Because it’s so damned funny. A d...

Classic "buttered my rice" vibes

dangerousminds.net/comments/bes...

Apparently, @nypl.bsky.social downloads of #HeatedRivalry were up over 500%!!

Snake!

Folding Garden of Eden toy at Daniel Crouch from the Temperley collection.

Are we finding out yet?

📚🤯🥳

The Newberry is noncirculating. BUT we have plenty of inspiration... americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

And THIS is how you support libraries!!

Textile Word Search No. 3" just dropped!

Word list: sew, thread, eye, needle, seam, bias, stitch. Can you find the visual pun? (Hint: it's a three-term combination this time!)

hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4424...

#dhmakes #letterpress #printsky #printmaking #textiles #sewing #fiberart

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There are no cops here helping or witnessing the terror, if we don't protect our neighborhood who will? I literally lived through May/June 2020 between the precinct that burned and GFS a block off of East Lake and this is worse. SO much worse. Incalculably worse."

"I am disgusted. I am on patrol from 10:45 to noon today and every conversation feels like my last. Every goodbye is a final goodbye. I don't know what mirror to buy for the bathroom because it ultimately doesn't matter. Nothing does... We have to do it all over again tomorrow. It's impossible...

Neighbors with their phones set against an army of racist outsiders intent on harm and violence filled with evil purpose. They don't care who we are, only that we are in their way, and that us living here is inconvenient for their daily quotas...

Minneapolis friend:

"I am safe but I am not okay... the reality is so much worse here at ground zero and so much more violently cruel and morally repugnant than what is being reported via the media just due to the sheer scale of ICE flooding the zone. This is so so so much worse than 2020...

Ever play Seventh Guest? Fantastic gothic score!

Speaker is doubling down on the literary and literal piracy, describing ways the illegal editors were: "trying to throw them off their piratical scent"... 🤢🤣

Actual pirates in the background of another text illustration.

🏴‍☠️☠️

Bibliographical Society of America keynote speaker Nora Benedict speaking on "Erle Stanley Gardner and the Case of the Mexican Pirates."

Pirates? You have my attention!
#OFMD #BSA

I was told I needed something shiny!

Me in a pleated blue dress with a label collar and a ridiculous gold belt.

Have grownup shoes, going to a grownup thing #Grolier

Full view of both sides of this otherwise luxurious book.

Always pay your artists!

Illumination of a nobility document with the wife of a donor pair left blank.

Not To Be Missed!

This noblewoman's likeness never made it into her carta executoria in Amanda Wunder's fabulous show on golden age Hispanic fashion. BUT if you're in the NYC area YOU have until March 22 to go see it! (Wunder guesses the artist was never paid!)
hispanicsociety.org/exhibition/s...

One of my favorites!

Inside of front of book, with labels removed, trailing writing and a torn first page.

Oh, BEHAVE!

RUDE*

Someone wrote ALL OVER this English book of good conduct @newberrylibrary.bsky.social...

*Actually, besides the missing first page, I love it!

Stack of four books on a desk, with broadsides on the wall behind.

Combatting The Horrors?

I highly recommend reading Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf, realizing to your chagrin you haven't read much of anything by the women Jane herself read, and then "accidentally" ordering a four-volume set of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Rudolpho to your office desk!