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Nora Epstein
@noraepstein.bsky.social
❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian
❧ Postdoc fellow with @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social
❧ interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
I used the first editions (Poetry Magazine, 1914 & Collected Vol., 1916) of 'Chicago' in a Newberry class yesterday:
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
FYI:

Out of the Newberry's ~22k French pamphlets, 530 are on the imprisonment, trial and execution of Louis XVI (published between August 10, 1792 and Jan. 21, 1793).

Our doors are open today if you need a place to sit and think about a society with #NoKings.

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June 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Same.

Newberry: Case 3A 1572
April 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Amazing! I can't wait to dig around the Sclair collection!

Here is the Odd Fellow banner I'm constantly telling a toddler not to touch:
February 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Capital work on Koberger's 1486 edition of Boethius

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December 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
I'm deeply bummed to miss my RSA book history panel today, but this new addition (edition?) arrived weeks ahead of schedule.

I encourage everyone to see @ewatson.bsky.social & Chelsea Reutcke deliver their brilliant bibliographic research this afternoon.
March 23, 2024 at 6:14 PM
I added to my list of phrases never uttered until working at the Newberry:
 
 "I was looking at our Septembertestament, you know, the one with the rubricated nipples…"

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February 21, 2024 at 3:45 PM
I know her!
Would you mind sharing which MS this is from? I've been collecting citations to Gessner's "copy cat" for years and have never seen this fantastic one!
February 14, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Guests are coming over, time to break out the fine stemware!

[grabs the 2001 Burger King commemorative Lord of the Rings glass goblets from the top shelf.]
December 26, 2023 at 6:18 PM
These last weeks were exhausting on every level, but I'm so grateful to have been slightly distracted by a fantastic research trip to England, supported by the Bibliographical Society of America.
If you need a break from doomscrolling, check out these silly 16/17c. MS images that kept my spirits up.
October 20, 2023 at 5:17 PM