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Libraries Posts

(9 Dec 2021) Printing for Pleasure

December 9 2021 – 5:15 pm; via Zoom

A virtual tour of the private press collections of the libraries of Merton, St John’s and Worcester Colleges. With the Librarians, Julia Walworth, Petra Hofmann and Mark Bainbridge.

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Looking at the Goostly Psalmes

Jane Eagan and Matthew Shaw Librarians and conservators see a lot of books. As such, they are often only passing acquaintances at best with many of them, and large numbers in their collection or care are positively strangers. It’s also unusual to know much at all about what researchers do with the books that they …

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Hands-On Palaeography Student Projects

Wt’s yt thē?: A Brief Guide to Reading Early Printed English

Things are a little disconcerting when you open an early printed book for the first time: everything initially seems familiar, yet upon further inspection you realise that some things are not quite right. Alongside the characters that we glide over without much thought feature strange additions and conspicuous absences, many of which are incomprehensible if …

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“It was itself named Albion”: Learning to Print with an Albion Press

(Part 2) Printing an anniversary card for Sebastian Brant at the Bodleian Bibliographical Press On March 4th, Agnes Hilger and I got a broad insight into the process of typesetting and printing in the Bibliographical Press of the Old Bodleian Library. In a previous blogpost, Agnes describes movable type, an invention that was revolutionary for …

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Adventures in Typesetting and Printing with Students of the History of the Book

One History of the Book student recounts the benefits of a hands-on approach to learning about printed material.

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Video Update: Lena Zlock interviews Richard Ovenden about Burning the Books

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