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Malcolm Walsby

@lankian.bsky.social

Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)

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Tom Hamilton@tombhamilton.bsky.social · last mo.

Still time to submit your book to the Society for the Study of French Book Prize! By 31 July 2026 📖📚🇫🇷 for 'an author based in the UK and Ireland, on a topic related to the history of France and the Francophone world in its broadest global context, which is the author’s first sole book publication'

Malcolm Walsby@lankian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Très heureux de voir deux recensions détaillées et généreuses de mon livre 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur' sur le commerce de l'imprimé au XVIe: => par Francesco Montorsi dans 'Studi Francesci' journals.openedition.org/studifrances... => par Thierry Boillot textoriana.blogspot.com/2026/01/note...

Malcolm Walsby, Entre l’atelier et le lecteur. Le commerce du livre...

L’ouvrage de Malcolm Walsby, expert reconnu de l’histoire du livre, part du constat que le travail de l’imprimeur a fait l’objet de nombreuses études, tout comme l’histoire de la lecture, qui a pro...

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Malcolm Walsby@lankian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The latest issue of the Sammelband Flyleaf is online: Read the report of the Nicosia conf. organised by @nconstantinidou.bsky.social, the programme of Rome event (28-30 April) organised by @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social & a portrait of Alessia Giachery (Marciana)! sammelband.hypotheses.org/3088

The Sammelband Flyleaf n° 8

The eighth issue of the Sammelband Flyleaf is now available online. This issue of the Flyleaf contains a full report on the Nicosia conference organised by Natasha Constantinidou of the University of ...

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Malcolm Walsby@lankian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cervantes's last work, 'Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda', was published in Paris in 1617, the same year as the first Madrid edition. To understand this edition & the context of how it was sold and read, I have analysed the @enssib.bsky.social copy using a book-archaeological approach... 1/2

Part of the title page of the 1617 Paris edition
Malcolm Walsby@lankian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For those of you who might be in _Berlin_ tomorrow, I will be talking about "Selling Printed Books: The Circulation and Distribution of Books in Europe (1450-1650)" at the _Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften_ @humboldtuni.bsky.social at 6.15 pm at the kind invitation of Prof. Dr. Matthias Pohlig

Engraving of a woman selling books - it features on the cover of 'Entre l'atelier et le lecteur: Le commerce du livre imprimé dans la France de la Renaissance': https://books.openedition.org/pur/298922
Natasha Constantinidou@nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Very pleased to be hosting the 13th Sammelband 15-16 event in Nicosia from tomorrow, co-organised with @lankian.bsky.social You can take a look at the programme here: sammelband.hypotheses.org/2810

Nicosia conference programme

. The thirteenth event organised by the Sammelband 15-16 project group on Sammelbände and instruction will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus from 19-21 November 2025. We are delighted to share the programme ...

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Malcolm Walsby@lankian.bsky.social · 9mo ago

To end the week, a few lines of an unknown 16th-century song jotted down on the cover of a notarial register in Le Puy en Velay: 'Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / La petite Jannetton / Et pourquoy se dormoit elle / Sur le chemin de Lyon'

Verse written on the cover of a register