Rotating the idea of 'Cleveland's Fanny Hill' in my mind.

Gorgeous gorgeous special issue on queer bibliography... www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/42/2

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - lih: Vol 42, No 2

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My second ever appearance in a national newspaper is being quoted secondhand about the myth of Psyche as an analogy for environmental crisis. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England

Volunteers painstakingly gather plastic pellets washing up on beaches after ship collision on 19 July

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I've been reading thids (admittedly quite massive) book on the history of reprographics on my commute. It's one of those fantastic works of bibliography that forces you to confront so many assumptions about how to look at documents. Like what do you mean there were pantographs in the 17thc!

All timer finding aid.

Unfortunate place to use a capital depicting Judith & Holofernes...

I've been trying to get my head around precisely how these companies find books. Is it ISBN data alone? We sell some of the sorts of books AI companies want and haven't had any interaction, and I wonder of its because we never list ISBNs... www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Saw this in a shop in Valencia and decided I had to own it.

Read this in one sitting in the local queer café today. V worthwhile read that I have already passed on to a fellow bibliographer. If someone asks me what they should read to learn desc bib I will now always say this!

Nice to see how scholars from other disciplines talk about handpress era books lol.

My partner and I watched all the (good) Pixar films in order, and now we're embarking on the natural follow-on to that: all the films of Philip Seymour Hoffman in no particular order.

My favourite thing in the world is talking about weird/beautiful/old books while in the proximity of wine. If you're in the NE and share this feeling then you should sign up for an event that is just that. Link: www.tixtree.com/e/keel-row-l...

My graduation on Friday was a wonderful but bittersweet experience. I have long called the English department at Newcastle my home, and my fellow scholars there are so dear to my heart. Seeing the culmination of three degrees over nine years has felt like a homecoming...

My challenge today has been collating a poorly attested 18thc locally printed Bible which ESTC states is 'eratically signed' in lieu of any attempt at a pagination statement. There is a logic, but not one that is apparent to me.

A love poem for printers, in a Regency era guide to courtship.

'An admirable attempt at repair' on a 1600 Bible, BCP, and Psalms.

Terrifying drawing in a 1589 Geneva Bible.

Very proud of @18thcenturysam.bsky.social, who has been awarded a prize from @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social for her smashing thesis on erotic books!

Pleased to say that as of September I'll be Visiting Fellow of Bibliography and Book History at Newcastle University. It's a largely honorary position but it's nice to have institutional recognition!

Finally, children can feel how I do when I look at binder's waste and realise it's literally anything more interesting than a leaf of psalms. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Parents shocked after children’s paper hedgehogs found to contain pages from explicit novel

Handmade creations distributed to raise funds for charity prompt complaints to police

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Writing about the dildo-poem 'Monsieur Thing's Origin' today - which might be one of the gappiest title-pages of the hand-press era. A 'thing' made present by this absence perhaps?

Finally, a beach bar for literary critics

The bookseller's label of the Dublin stationer Bennett Dugdale (fl. 1781-1800) in a manuscript. I don't often see letterpress 'sold by' labels in 18thc books!

A press room of 13-14 year olds at work, illustrating the young bookmakers who made the volume I'm currently cataloguing.

First shortlist that I've put together includes a weird Maria Edgeworth first, a Cumbrian sexology pamphlet, and a BCP whose former owned *nailed* their book label to the book.

Keel Row Books@keelrowbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're pleased to share a few highlights from our first short-list, a mix of 15 items that are rare, interesting, or that we just have a fondness for. 👉 mailchi.mp/b53332ba368f... The books are not online, so order by contacting us at: 📧 mail@keelrowbooks.com or ☎️ (+44) 0191 296 0664

We're pleased to share a few highlights from our first short-list, a mix of 15 items that are rare, interesting, or that we just have a fondness for. 👉 mailchi.mp/b53332ba368f... The books are not online, so order by contacting us at: 📧 mail@keelrowbooks.com or ☎️ (+44) 0191 296 0664

Anyone able to identify this mysterious bookplate? Late 18th/early 19thC, engraved & printed in blue-green ink. The monogram with three letters, perhaps “B S D”, beneath a jewelled turban. In a work by Pope Pius II printed at Cologne by Ulrich Zel c. 1470. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.5.A.4.1[287]

I have found many things in books, snakeskin is a first though...

Viva'd! With no corrections!

come listen to and help me work through many complicated thoughts about the relations between (New) Bibliography and Theory! And of course stay for brilliant work by everyone else :)

The Bibliographical Society of America@bibsocamer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required. 🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio