Vegan parchment: Dizzy Pragnell, UK artist, makes books from thin slices of vegetables. This is the world's driest borscht. Will be on view in Sense-ational Books, opening 9 April @bodleiancsb

SHELTERING WITH BOOKS Share how books are helping you get through this challenging period. Your brief comments – or long essays – will be archived at the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. For details and a link to post your story, go to secondstorybooks.com/interesting-li…

Conservation Treatment of Early Canadian Abolitionist Newspapers bookandpaperconservationservices.com/news/2019/8/16…

A handful of #vellum bound books. So many delightful #books in this handful, including (from top to bottom): a 1558 De Arcanis Naturae, a 1551 #Astronomicon, a 1668 Les Vrayes de #Nostradamus, & a 1625 Biblia Mariae by Magnus, bound w a 1626 Verdicus Belgicus by Scribanius.

Very scarce 1570 edition of Orlando Furioso. The chivalric romance by Ariosto is 38,736 lines long, making it one of the longest poems in European literature.  For more pics and info: buff.ly/2PdEWX3 #vellum #lithistory #oldbook

A reading station by Charles Hindley & Co, London c.1890

It's another hot summer day! Why not dip your toes into some coooool bibliography? 😎 My #BiteSizedBookHistory YouTube #video series is a great place to start! youtube.com/watch?v=cdgFxu…

Lovely #horn label on this sixteenth-century book in the Reading Room today. Part of the Bury Grammar School Library, given to them in July 1565 & deposited with us in 1970. CUL Bury.48.7. #bindings

For this #woodcutwednesday, we have the Ace and Queen of Spades from a c.1814 English, toy-sized playing card deck with standing courts. For more pics and info on this early eighteenth century deck, follow the link: buff.ly/3aZkEKD

From one of my favourite books currently in shop, we have a #woodcut of this interesting fellow. The 1580 Basler Chronik is filled w over 300 woodcuts, including coats of arms, portraits, & depictions of historical events. To see more:: buff.ly/3lTZing #wooodcutwednesday

Rare 1544 #Vellutelloedition of Dante’s #LaComedia, with 87 #woodcuts. Vellutello’s work was the first new commentary to be published in the 16th c. #Vellutello was concerned w elucidating Dante's historical and literary allusions. buff.ly/33d9EFY

Bright Young Librarians: Erin Schreiner | Fine Books & Collections finebooksmagazine.com/blog/bright-yo… via Fine Books Magazine

Hang on in there little endband! The binding of this Javanese ms is completely detached but the endband is staying strong. I’ve been taking photos for online training & this falls under the category ‘historic details you don’t want to loose’! #MidWeekManuscript British Library

Our annual display of rare science books for ScienceLiteracyWeek has gone digital for 2020! Click through to see highlights from our extensive history of science collections: fisherdigitus.library.utoronto.ca/exhibits/show/…

From the margins of a 1502 copy of Strabo’s “De Situ Orbis”(Geographica). #PostIncunable #strabo #DeSituOrbis #marginalia #geographica

Estate sales, flea markets, boot sales - "hope burns bright"

French Provence Pattern playing cards, published in Montpellier France, c. 1750. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the shoulders on the Queen of Diamonds dress? For more pics: ebay.ca/itm/2840244725… #woocutwednesday #playingcards #antiqueplayingcards #puffedsleeves

Peekaboo! Look what I found in the pages of this c1650 commonplace book. And just in time for #tinytuesday! . #antiquebooks #oldbooks #oldscript #commonplacebook #commonplacebooks #tinybook #tinybooks #handwriting

Woodcut from the opening of Purgatorio in the 1520 edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy published in Venice, by B. Stagnino. #oldbooks #antiquarian #DivineComedy #Purgatory #rarebooks #Woodcut #woodcutwednesday #printhistory #bookshistory