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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1615)

A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving and of the Greatest Mystery Therein Contained: How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad was written by Alexander Niccholes, self-identified as a “Batchelour in the Ar…

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Aug 12

Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏

Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · Mar 13

There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.

A mock-up of an open book- on one side there is light mint/robin's egg blue background and the text "The House Archives Built, Revisited" with smaller text in a typerwriterish font. On the other side there is a sepia photo from the 1870's of a Black man standing on a porch with his hands on a chair and his legs crossed in a jaunt manner.

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Aug 4

A fantastic book history project!

Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today we have a great new blog post from MEMOs team member Dr Nat Cutter, who maps networks of readership on the Maghreb in eighteenth century Britain

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Reading the Maghreb in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Part 2: Networks of Readership | MEMOs

Books are one of the few material items from the past that can be with certainty connected with a particular owner.

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · Jul 31

And ... voila!

Thanks again to my sharp-eyed copyeditor, and to @joshuajfriedman.com and @bcdreyer.social!

Just more evidence that social media can be a force for good (grammar) ...

The cover of "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier," with the font in white over a green-tinted landscape painting of three Indigenous women on a raft, moving across a lake with mountains in the background. Partial images of four different people - Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis- fold over the left side of the cover from the spine.

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wow, is the spine still intact?!! Incredible!

Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · Jul 31

I love a chonky codex (but this one is early c18)

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is what I’m talkin’ about!! Thick, stout, and chonky!!

Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · Jul 31

I have one of 2286 pages in quarto. leocadogan.com/products/sto...

STOUT COMPANION TO LUTHER

[Luther, Martin] Gruber, Erasmus: Zwölff geistliche brod-körbe, mit allerley heylsamen bröcklein nutzlicher erbaulicher materien angefüllet, und auss der reichen brod-kammer der zwolff Wittenbergische...

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jul 31

I’d love to learn more about it.

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jul 31

Fabulous!! Thank you so much!!

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jul 31

Early Modern Biblionerds: I’m looking for some thick books before 1700. what is the longest book (in pages, not words) printed before 1700? what about in quarto format?

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Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social · Jul 24

#Bees 🐝 1744 book! "Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy..." printed in London for author John Thorley.
4 plates of illustrations & 10 chapters covering everything bees!
Catalog: bit.ly/melisselogia...
#Pollinators #18thCentury #NatureSky #IllustratedBooks #NaturalHistory #nature #RareBooks

Illustrated frontispiece with three detailed engraved bees over a botanical border and title page .

Table of contents listing all ten chapters.

Illustrated plate with an engraving showing an internal model of a hive along with bees and the hive in various stages of development.

Illustrated foldout plate of a person seated and writing at a large desk with books in the background and a row of 6 beehives visible outside his large window.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 10

The real reason academic conferences exist is that after you have marinated your brain in hundreds of books on a single field of study for 10+ years there are only so many people you can speak coherent sentences to, and it’s a pleasure to have them all in one place 😅

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Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social · Jul 6

Booklist preserved from 3rd century Memphis (P. Petropol. 13).

Kind of cool to see that they had a copy of Aristotle's "Athenaion Politeia" (line 12)! (From Wilcken "Chrestomathie" n. 155)

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 25

‘As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, outbidding and outsmarting rivals wherever she went.’

Francesca Wade on Belle da Costa Greene:
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Francesca Wade · Why waste time hot airing? The Best-Paid Woman in NYC

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal...

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 27

What an accomplishment! Amazing work here on Alice Thornton!

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Mar 7

Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
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Full and Final Edition Now Available

News article - 24 February 2025

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks, C! Big returns from slow work!

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Jan 6

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 26

#herbook #bookhistory

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 26

In 1671, Rachel (Fane) Bouchier, the Countess of Bath, purchased £200 of books for the library at @tcddublin.bsky.social The books were housed together and known as “The Countess of Bath’s Library.” This week I reconstructed the bequest, with the help of the amazing TCD librarians.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Jun 24

📢WILLS TRANSCRIBATHON KLAXON📢

Join us on Thursday 24 July to transcribe wills and go behind the scenes of the wills project!

In person and on Zoom - full details & registration here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #transcription @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Promotional image advertising 'Wills Project Transcribathon, Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, Digital Humanities Lab University of Exeter and on Zoom. The image also features a portrait of a man making his will, a photo of a box of wills and a page of a will.

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 22

So many baby horses in Ireland this time of year! I’m in love 😍

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 22

This symposium looks fabulous!

UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · Jun 20

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN!
Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library
9–10 Sep UCL @livesandletters.bsky.social
This symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives & methodologies.
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Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library

This 2-day symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to open up existing narratives and bodies of evidence...

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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · Jun 20

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare

This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!

More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you!

Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 19

I wrote about the library of Katherine Blount’s daughter, Catharina (Blount) Freman. Check it out below:

Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Jun 19

You may remember our discovery of the library of early modern book owner Katherine Blount. Today, in a must-read post, @tarallyons.bsky.social uncovers a library of books belonging to her daughter! earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/j... #HerBook #EarlyModern

John Raymond’s An itinerary contayning a voyage, made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647 (1648)

When I tell people about the Early Modern Female Book Ownership blog, I often mention the case of Katherine (Butler) Blount (1676-1753) and the series of posts (by Sarah Lindenbaum, Sophie Floate, …

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Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social · Jun 19

Trolley #2 complete! The Countess of Bath, Rachel (Fane) Bourchier purchased books for Trinity Dublin College in 1671. One was Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiocus (1654), a fascinating (albeit flawed) work of orientalist scholarship.

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