HAM CLOCK

It has definitely influenced the way I look at incunabula, and books in general. Training for the eye and mind!

This book is maybe the book history thing that I recommend the most. It might seem niche, but Bolton does an amazing job illuminating the 15th century printing process through Zainer as a case study. It’s kind of like a mystery novel, where she leads us through the evidence to discover the cause.

Black ink fingerprint in the margin of a 1477 printed book

Here’s a fingerprint I came across recently! From the press of Anton Sorg in Augsburg.

Inky Fingers — Harvard University Press An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year“Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material…in a clear, even breezy style…Erudite.”—Michael Dirda, Washington PostIn this celebration of bookmaking in all...

Also I haven’t read this yet but it sounds potentially promising on the topic! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Claire Bolton may discuss them in her genius book—and certainly she talks about a lot of inky-fingerprint adjacent things (i.e., various marks left by press workers)—The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer.

Unfortunately, he died young after mysteriously disappearing in the Alps while hiking alone!

The hobbit Pippin from the Lord of the Rings movie gazing plangently at the camera

This is who runs this account btw

Proctor’s book Printing of Greek in the 15th century

Yes, we’ve had the Printing of Greek in the 15th century, but what about the Printing of Greek in the 16th century????

It’s so hard to answer this! I’ve gone through intense phases of obsession with various Shax plays. But then I see a new performance and another world opens up.

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It's that time! lithub.com/announcing-t...

I haven’t even read all the Wimsey novels… I only care about Harriet and actually I kind of really only care about this book!!

That is awesome! I hope the students love it.

#TheWriteWomen: The challenge: In March, post book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can).
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.

Hard to describe the role of this book in my life. Harriet Vane 5ever.

This mournful empire is the losers lot John Dryden, Lucifer speaking in ‘The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man’, 1674 Screen still from ‘La Flor’, directed by Mariano Llinás, 2018

He was English, which was apparently controversial among my Welsh immigrant family.

Sawmill ggpa I don’t think had any real medical training. They just lived in the middle of nowhere and that was his assigned role. His name was Horace and he played the accordion.

I didn’t really know any of them. I met air force grandpa once, at my grandma’s funeral at age 3. Mainly I remember that his backyard was full of slugs, which I found very exciting. It was my first time in the Pacific Northwest.

One was in the air force (I was told as a child, a parachute tester ?? Surely fake, right?) and the other, I have no idea. I’m sure nothing good. Great-gpa on that side, who raised my mom, was a medic at a saw mill & a farmer.

Philly has many nice oyster bars, but I can’t make it to happy hour in center city from where I work 😭

If I could pick two things, it would be that and a hardware store. Tarrytown really had it all!!!!!!! I miss it every day.

If I could pick one thing to add to downtown Narberth, it would be a small wine bar with an oyster happy hour.

i love a book that's seen the world and knows its way around. seasoned, reliable, softly strong, warm and comforting, but still lively, a bit wild and definitely cunty. in short: books should be milfs

We're smokin' that Argentinian himejoshi catgirl shit out of a puma bone pipe at an altitude of 12,600 feet, concurrent with the third Dynasty of Ur, you stupid shit.

#TheWriteWomen: The challenge: In March, post book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can).
Rules:
It has to be a book you’ve read.
It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from.

This is my favorite new novel of this decade, no competition.

I should instead spend the money on bare roots from David Austin and just plant them in my rented backyard. I’ll be here for a while, but someday someone else will come love them.

I realizing I could just buy 300 roses at any time is a terrible discovery

I’m reading D’Annunzio’s Il piacere right now and it is influencing me to price out bulk wedding roses… I’m not getting married. I just want my house to be full of roses at all times.

Rebarbative is soooo good

Reading the replies reminds me of when I used to hang out with a lot of people who casually used ”edifying” all the time, although I have mostly cured myself of that one