Dr Grace Touzel
@boundtobeused.bsky.social
Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
Happy World Book Day! Not too hard to pick which shelf is mine...
NHM Library and Archives@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 6mo agoFor #WorldBookDay, we asked a few of our regular Library users what's on their shelves this month. ⬆️For more on using our collections to expand your own reading list, use the link in our bio. 👇To share what's already on your shelf, comment below! #NaturalHistoryMuseum #BookSky #WBD26
When you need to retrieve all 13 volumes from four locations in order to catalogue just one 😂
Having a bad day, walking grumpily from back-of-house to another back-of-house...then this view. Maybe things aren't so bad.
On my desk today: unravelling the print records from the (fully digitised by @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social ) artwork of Henry Woodward's Table of British Strata. I particularly enjoyed the sarky note to future bookbinders! 🤣
We've put together a 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 4. Octopus, Port Jackson Painter (active 1790s). Did you know… #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a white octopus from below.
I had a lot of fun doing this, so won't be shy about reposting!
NHM Library and Archives@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe've put together a 25-day advent calendar showcasing Library and Archives collections. Enjoy! 1. 'Snowy Owls’, John James Audubon (publ. 1827-1838). Did you know... #adventcalendar #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum #BirdsInArt Alt text: an advent calendar, with 2 white owls
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
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.
One of the more interesting bindings to pass across my desk recently. #bookbinding #specialcollections #naturalhistorymuseum #blueskybooks #rarebooks
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
This week's encounters of the bookish kind. #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #MarbledDesigns #Endpapers #BlueSkyBooks #Shelfie
What distracted me this week at work. #SpecialCollections #Bookbinding #Endpapers #NaturalHistoryMuseum #tickets #Bookplates #BlueSkyBooks
One day, I'll be able to walk through the stacks without getting distracted. One day. #bookbinding #tradebindings
So many lovely books in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, so little time to spend with each... #Cataloguing #RareBooks #Provenance #Endpapers
Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum
I suspect that, when making this, my enthusiasm for #bookbinding and #bookbindings triumphed over snappy post length...
NHM Library and Archives@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · last yr.We're not asking you to *judge* a book by its cover (this one has some lovely artwork inside), just that you don't look past it! #Bookbinding #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #Doublure #FineBinding Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.
Cataloguing @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social collections brings all sorts of surprises -- I settled for "Two boxes of glass microscopic slides as reproduced in serial 'Studies in microscopical science' (1882-1887)". No eye of newt, but close! #cataloguing #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum
