Dunk, turn, dunk, turn, dunk…If you're doing one textblock, why not do eight? G.A. Olivier's Entomologie (Paris 1789-1808). #MarbledMonday #MarbledPaper #SpecialCollections #BlueSkyBooks
15.09.2025 08:30 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A lovely thing to end the week on: Thomas Martyn's Aranei : or a natural history of Spiders (London, 1793). Bound by Christian Samuel Kalthhoeber? Perhaps. A striking frontispiece? Definitely.
05.09.2025 15:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the more interesting bindings to pass across my desk recently. #bookbinding #specialcollections #naturalhistorymuseum #blueskybooks #rarebooks
28.08.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An open antique book photographed from one end. The marbled edge of the book is held by an endband of alternating blue and white.
Three photographs of a 15th century book. Top lett, the closed book showing a brown leather spine and marbled paper. Top right, an open page with blue painted U. Bottom, the book edge, with "Ruralia" inked on the edge.
Four coloured book spines titled "Siberia in Asia" and "Siberia in Europe". Spines left to right are brown, orange, tan, blue.
A closely cropped image of three stacked books. The lower two have marbled edges of blue, yellow, pink, and white.
The things I couldn't walk past this week, including a trip over the road to the V&A. #bookbinding #Incunabula #Endbands #marbling #VictoriaAndAlbertMuseum #RareBooks #shelfie
09.08.2025 08:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two photos of a 5-volume set of books on a shelf. Each image shows 19th century marbling on volumes now in 20th century bindings.
A wooden library shelf holding 15 small notebooks bound in brown leather.
A split image showing a black and cream swirling pattern at left, and a black and white crocodile-skin pattern at right. Both are book covers.
A recurring design of purple lines and green leaves on a cloth background, in an Art Nouveau style.
This week's encounters of the bookish kind. #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #MarbledDesigns #Endpapers #BlueSkyBooks #Shelfie
01.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So many lovely books in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, so little time to spend with each... #Cataloguing #RareBooks #Provenance #Endpapers
20.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks :-) No, no HD version -- some stripes are pretty low resolution as they're just a tiny sliver of a painting. But we'll work on it!
18.06.2025 07:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gloves (regardless of colour or material) affect your sense of touch, making it more likely to tear a page, whereas surgical-type gloves work protect shiny things like copperplates and photographs from fingerprints.
18.06.2025 07:31 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Made from 100% endpapers and artworks from @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social collections.
15.06.2025 17:40 — 👍 27 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
A hand holding two books on fungi with covers of decorative paper. Title at left is 'Edible Fungi', at right is 'Poisonous Fungi'.
Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum
06.06.2025 17:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I suspect that, when making this, my enthusiasm for #bookbinding and #bookbindings triumphed over snappy post length...
27.05.2025 17:53 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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📚 Librarian at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest learned society devoted to natural history.
🌿 Secretary of the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
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Work in a cathedral to nature. Archives, libraries, natural history, medieval medical manuscripts and morris dancing. Personal account, all views my own.
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Rare books librarian at Hogwarts-on-Thames. Ghastly, grim & ancient, reporting from the Night’s Plutonian shore. Ridiculous living arrangements while failing to learn to drive. Lifelong unspecified neurodiversity explains a lot.
Early printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum (New York City). My husband says that I fondle Gutenberg Bibles for a living. Sometimes we are in the Catskills.
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Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Rare Books, Ephemera, and Manuscripts with a focus on Food & Drink History, Women's History, Cultural History, and anything else that makes us smile.
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Early Printed Books Cataloguer at Exeter College Oxford. Medievalist, book historian, and bibliophile 📚
Academic studying braille, print disabilities, and small-press publishing. Editor by trade, academic at heart. she/they. ocd & long-covid & cane-user.
Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
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Rare books librarian at Longleat | library & book history | moderately early modern
Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.
