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getagrippa.bsky.social
lo-fi kill so many ways to die
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was looking into bookbindings now the algorithm is showing me binders
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM Everybody can reply
tuxkate.bsky.social
Sensible gremlin tux
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Handle rare books with (clean) bare hands NOT WEARING WHITE GLOVES.

Gloves are for photographs and metals and materials that will react chemically to the oils on your hands. Paper, leather, and parchment need not apply.

Arsenic green bookbindings need nitrile or latex gloves, not cotton.
October 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM Everybody can reply
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J.D. Sargan
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There’s also a new paper out in sensors: Paoloni et al., “Thermal Reading of Texts Buried in Historical Bookbindings”
September 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM Everybody can reply
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Rose A. McCandless
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So curious about the gold tooling on this one—looks like contemporary bookbindings! (This is just a random example, but many look so similar to this Lady’s Companion.) Wondering if the circles of bookbinders and the folks who made these had some intersection…
September 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM Everybody can reply
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Zanna Van Loon
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A 17th-century bookbinding in full bloom!

While screening the collections for books to show during a hands-on workshop on historical bookbindings, we stumbled upon this devotional book bound in a beautiful embroidered binding featuring flowers, usually associated with female makers and/or owners.
Front cover of the book with a brownish cloth binding decorated with flowers by means of needle work in different colours. It contains the library shelf mark on the top left corner Spine of the book with several flowers sewn on a cloth cover in different colours. Back cover of the book with a brownish cloth binding decorated with flowers by means of needle work in different colours. You see a fragment of a silk thread in the middle.
September 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM Everybody can reply
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The Warburg Institute
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Interested in bookbindings?

Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad

warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek...

8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

#BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory
Greek-style bookbindings in early modern Venice and beyond
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September 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM Everybody can reply
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Sarah Finn
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Examples of beautiful book bindings from 'Moderne Buch-Einbände' by Gustav Fritzsche. Published in Leipzig in 1878.

Milwaukee Public Library's Rare Books Collection.

#BookBindings #BookHistory #BookDesign #BookCovers #historyofbooks #chromolithography
September 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM Everybody can reply
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛
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Charlotte Beradt collected the dreams of Germans under fascism. She concealed the records in bookbindings & smuggled them abroad. Newly translated, the remarkable collection—which is unique in the canon of Holocaust literature—they reveal even in sleep, the Reich occupied the minds of its subjects
disco-taj.bsky.social Disco_taj @disco-taj.bsky.social · Sep 1
The power of dreams. And control. “…Three decades earlier Sigmund Freud had posited that dreams reveal unconscious thoughts. To Beradt, they disclosed truths about authoritarianism that no one would dare say aloud…”

In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams
economist.com/culture/2025...
In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams
A remarkable work of journalism, newly translated into English, shows how authoritarianism warps the subconscious
economist.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM Everybody can reply
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛
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Charlotte Beradt collected the dreams of Germans under fascism. She concealed the records in bookbindings & smuggled them abroad. Newly translated, the remarkable collection—which is unique in the canon of Holocaust literature—they reveal even in sleep, the Reich occupied the minds of its subjects
disco-taj.bsky.social Disco_taj @disco-taj.bsky.social · Sep 1
The power of dreams. And control. “…Three decades earlier Sigmund Freud had posited that dreams reveal unconscious thoughts. To Beradt, they disclosed truths about authoritarianism that no one would dare say aloud…”

In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams
economist.com/culture/2025...
In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams
A remarkable work of journalism, newly translated into English, shows how authoritarianism warps the subconscious
economist.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca
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ahahahhaa!! missed the posts but saw the words pass by. guess I’ll have to find some good examples in the stacks to share now
Screenshot of the dictionary site with gauffering and bookbindings in the list of newest words
August 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca
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no, someone got there first. gilding and gauffering? publisher’s bookbindings? it feels like cheating to go straight to plant names, but I did see some cool herbarium samples of dodder
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM Everybody can reply
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The Bibliographical Society
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For this month's Council's Choice, our Honorary Secretary, Karen Limper-Herz, writes about the Einbanddatenbank, a key resource for identifying German bookbindings of the 15th and 16th centuries: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Council’s Choice for August 2025 - Bibliographical Society
The Einbanddatenbank A Key Resource for Identifying German Bookbindings of the 15th and 16th Centuries The Einbanddatenbank, hosted by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, provid...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM Everybody can reply
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Association for Scottish Literature
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Collecting The Most Beautiful Books
22 Aug, Rothesay – £8.50–£11

Kelsey Jackson Williams explores armorial bookbindings in the Bute Collection & tells the story of an exceptional but unknown assemblage of book-art in the Mount Stuart libraries
#BookHistory
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Collecting The Most Beautiful Books - August Talk
Join us on Friday 22nd August for an incredible evening delving into the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart's rare collection of bookbindings!
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August 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM Everybody can reply
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Dr Grace Touzel
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This week's encounters of the bookish kind. #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #MarbledDesigns #Endpapers #BlueSkyBooks #Shelfie
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.
August 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM Everybody can reply
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Natasha Constantinidou
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#bookhistory #bookbindings
zannavanloon.bsky.social Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Jul 31
Bonus detail: this copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus is bound in a stunning #earlymodern binding with a blind tooled decoration: a presentation copy from Christophe Plantin to Abraham Ortelius, as noted in a handwritten title page inscription!
Upper cover of the binding with elaborate blind tooled decoration on pigskin leather with a panel stamp surrounded by ornamental borders. Detail of the inscription that reads: 'Integeri[ssi]mo Abrahamo Ortelio Cosmographo Regio, Christophorus Plantinus gratitudinus ergo D. D.'
July 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM Everybody can reply
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Stuart Brown
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A friend gave me an old book of Islamic bookbindings which he’d somehow managed to locate for my birthday. Now in pride of place in the maktab.
A photo of my home office, which is largely Arabic-themed. A photo of an open book showing Islamic bookbindings on my (rather messy and disorganised) bookshelves.
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM Everybody can reply
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Mari Adkins
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do you sniff bookbindings?
July 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM Everybody can reply
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NHM Library and Archives
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Reverend J. G. Wood, born #OTD in 1827, published dozens of popular books on natural history. To celebrate his 198th birthday, here are a few of our favourites... #Bookbindings, #IllustratedBindings, #Victorian, #SpecialBooks, #TradeBindings

Alt text: Reel of Victorian bookbindings [has audio]
July 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM Everybody can reply
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Sara D Gore
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I was so excited to log on and see talk about custom bookbindings and prints, only to discover the context.
July 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM Everybody can reply
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Lisa Fagin Davis
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I spend a lot of time looking at & teaching about parchment recycled in the early modern era, not just in bookbindings but any place where a piece of durable parchment might be of use, like this clothing pattern cut from a saga manuscript (Magnússon Institute 122 b fol.):
handrit.is/manuscript/v...
July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM Everybody can reply
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Public Services Quarterly Journal T&F
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Our latest #SpecialCollections Special Challenges column discusses the medieval manuscript fragments found in bookbindings of unrelated books, the workflow to facilitate discovery of these fragments in the local catalog, and their connections with other library collections.

doi.org/10.1080/1522...
Special Collections Special Challenges column Uncovering medieval manuscript fragments in bookbindings at The University of Chicago Library Rebecca Flore The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Fragments from medieval manuscript books were frequently refashioned into covers or internal structures of bookbindings in the 15th through 17th centuries. Because these manuscript fragments in bindings (in situ manuscript fragments) are unrelated to the later books they cover, they are often hidden from discovery in special collections libraries. The University of Chicago Library has developed a workflow to facilitate user discovery of in situ manuscript fragments via enhanced description in the local catalog and contributions to digital projects focused specifically on medieval manuscripts.
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM Everybody can reply
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Magdalen Libraries & Archives
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We're proud to announce that Basil has undertaken his first professional development activity!

Last week he accompanied our Special Collections Librarian, Jessica, to Hereford, where he listened in on an excellent Green's Books course, Understanding Bookbindings. (1/2)
Basil the Badger outside Hereford Cathedral. The chained library at Hereford Cathedral. Basil poses with a business card from Green's Books. Basil meets the statue of Sir Edward Elgar outside Hereford Cathedral.
July 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM Everybody can reply
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nick
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they put up a zine on the internet archive and called it a fucking samidzat. if you're unaware, samidzat were bootleg copies of censored material that were passed around the former USSR. they were often hidden in bookbindings and used carbon copies of text from smuggled typewriters.
July 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM Everybody can reply
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Star ✧⁠*⁠。
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That's such a cool process to watch!! Love to see bookbindings 💖💖💖
June 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM Everybody can reply
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Fragmentarium
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#FragmentOfTheDay: fragments appear in pre-industrial bookbindings. Fragment covers and pastedowns usually signify a cheap binding. But secrets lurk on the unseen spine. 10C rule of St. Benedict from Madonna del Sasso, Ticino. #Fragmentology fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-y...
Orselina-Locarno, Biblioteca Madonna del Sasso, MdS 51 Aa 4/F1-4. The exposed spine of a 16C book, showing four strips of Caroline bound in there. A colorchecker classic and a ruler are also in the plane of the picture.
June 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM Everybody can reply
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