Oxford Bibliographical Society

Hi Jason. You can email sarah.cusk@lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the link.

Our next talk! (In person, and online). Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of early print's most riddling questions.

Our next talk! Come along to hear Paul Nash on some of printing's earliest riddling questions.

Good spot! Amazing roll call of names.

New OBS members list from the 1920s, including yet-to-be-rumbled forger TJ Wise.

If you’re a forger - or not - and would like to join, come and visit us at Firsts London Book Fair!

First time for the OBS at the lovely @firstsrarebooks.bsky.social in the Saatchi Gallery, London.

And look at the queue for us!

Come and join and collect your free book!

This event @blackwelloxford.bsky.social is free to attend, and our manager Sian plans to bring something nice upstairs to the third floor to show off to attendees

This evening! If you’re in Oxford— come along!

Ahem

Wonderful! Thanks for posting, Liam.

wonderful!

Ordering the University of Oxford’s literary treasure troves “Oxford has been doing bibliography in one form or another for at least ten centuries”, Henry Woudhuysen observes in his introduction to this collection

Thanks for @thetls.bsky.social and to ASG Edwards for a generous review of our ESSAYS TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF THE OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1922–2022, ed. David Rundle and H. R. Woudhuysen.

Copies available for purchase via oxbibsoc.org.uk!

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Repeating Names A little while ago I was reading about the late 18th-century English clergyman, biographer and antiquary, Mark Noble (1754-1827), author of several works including Two Dissertations on the Mint and Co...

A micro-essay on people with the same name:

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Bookmarking Book Art – Adam Smyth 13 March 1911 (2019) 13 March 1911 (2019) Adam Smyth Perfect bound paperback. H175x W115 mm, 64 pages. Edition of 500. Acquired from Information as Material, 10 October 2020. Although unremarkable …

It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged).

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A great way to spend #WorldBookDay listening to a fascinating talk on women's libraries & different ways of identifying #herbook in collections where women's reading has long been overlooked

#libraries #womenreadimg #18thcentury

THIS is happening on Thursday!

ONE DAY to go for this -- short application for 2 funded weeks in archives and library of @ballioloxford.bsky.social!

Calling all #HerBook crew.

Can confirm anything by Melanie is box office material

AND on Zoom! Contact sarah.cusk[at]lincoln.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom link

9 days left to apply to this! Early career / grad scholars for 2 weeks research @ballioloxford.bsky.social with stipend, accommodation and meals!

We are delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!

Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers.

Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

THIS is happening next week -- in person, in Oxford, the amazing Leah Price, on reading and the household.

Delighted to announce our next OBS talk by the brilliant Leah Price ...

OBS / Balliol College research associate position!

We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February

Please consider applying to the OBS for a small grant -- up to £500. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Deadline 7 February.

Talk to us!

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

Categories (filing cabinets; book shelves) On my way to the reading room in the National Archives in Kew, I see a set of filing cabinets that carry headings of implausible exactness.

A micro-essay on categories

Short films of books I like -- number 1.

Ian Hamilton Finlay's periodical, Poor Old Tired Horse.

The whole series is at www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html