Advertisement from 'The south-Sea kidnapper, address'd in a letter to the court of directors of the South-Sea Company,…’ (1730), p. 1 via the excellent @Fleuronweb

Dominique Varry from #ENSSIB, Lyon, giving a fascinating talk on reconstructing the geography of the print community of the 18th century, to the Book & Print Initiative. Convents were secret warehouses for counterfeit & prohibited books!

ANOTHER LIE BY LYONS PRINTERS! @Fleuronweb to the rescue!

The Fleuron website was down over the holidays. Apologies to those who've been trying to use it. Pleased to say we're back online now.

New Blog Post! How to use Compositor's Visual Search Engine: fleuronweb.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/vis…

We’re delighted to reopen the #CfP for our 2021 conference, Gender & the Book Trades, with proposals now due on 31 Jan. This will be our first fully virtual USTC conference, and registration will be open free of charge. For more see ustc.ac.uk/conference #USTC21 #HerBook

Compositor’s visual search engine is temporarily down while we work to fix a problem. Apologies to anyone trying to use it today, we’ll have it up and running soon.

Compositor’s visual search engine is back up and running. Happy ornament hunting 🕵️

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"Mapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806." Introducing the Dined Project, a database of the dinner book kept at Holland House, Kensington, between 1799 and 1806. (Add MS 51950). blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

A hand-coloured ornament from an angling manual of 1740

Ornaments depicted in this printer’s ornament.

Dog(?) carrying a printed sheet or pamphlet in its mouth

Imaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a "Bewick" and one for Dickens. sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mh/h… Dickens Museum @GilesBergel @Fleuronweb Cassey Mcfadden @UMBookworm

#CallforPapers now open for ‘Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work’, a one-day symposium Uni of Birmingham on 27 June 2018 to coincide with landmark new edition of the writings of Alexander Pope Oxford University Press. See blog.bham.ac.uk/apope18/ -- DEADLINE 1 APRIL. 18th Century Studies Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC RECSO

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for ‘Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work’, a one-day symposium Uni of Birmingham on 27 June 2018 to coincide with landmark new edition of the writings of Alexander Pope Oxford University Press. See bit.ly/2H2qb47 18th Century Studies Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC RECSO