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.
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! 🤣
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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! 🤣
Reposted by Dr Grace Touzel
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.
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a white octopus from below.
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
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!
We'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
Alt text: an advent calendar, with 2 white owls
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I had a lot of fun doing this, so won't be shy about reposting!
Reposted by Dr Grace Touzel
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
September 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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.
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
August 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
August 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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
August 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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
July 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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
June 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So many lovely books in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, so little time to spend with each... #Cataloguing #RareBooks #Provenance #Endpapers
Made from 100% endpapers and artworks from @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social collections.
June 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Made from 100% endpapers and artworks from @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social collections.
Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum
June 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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...
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.
Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.
May 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I suspect that, when making this, my enthusiasm for #bookbinding and #bookbindings triumphed over snappy post length...
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
May 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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