BL Printed Heritage Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

Sweet #printedhorrortage dreams ...

☞ Watch out for Ghosts &c. everywhere this week from our Spectre-tacular #printedhorrortage 👻🙀🎃 collections!!

Let us give you (more) good news today: ‘Flora’s Fancy Fete. Or floral characteristics’ (1839) is to be digitised! It has pretty pictures and even has a pretty pink binding! Which is nice.
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But supposedly worst of all for William Blades, are biblioclast bibliophiles who deliberately cut up old books. Blades lambasted John Bagford (many of whose collections are @britishlibrary - ballads, title pages & fragments). We disagree! Bagford rescued cuttings and is a hero!!

And DOMESTIC SERVANTS! Blind their eyes!!
Keeping your masters warm, fed, comfortable and spoiled are you?’
Serving as #EnemiesofBooks more like.

Plus a bat that looks a bit too much like a dinosaur for my liking...

Ghostly off-set inked impressions on facing sheets of paper are hauntingly beautiful.
This example is from Ames’s titlpages.
Read more about our Special Collections by Format @britishlibrary in the ‘Directory to western printed heritage collections’
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Seeing and feeling Robinson Crusoe: Read about the most sensual edition of Defoe’s novel of the shipwrecked sailor held @britishlibrary
https://t.co/iBnXboi8E2

Caxton’s 1476-7 printing of the Canterbury Tales, the first book printed in England, will soon be on show @britishlibrary in ‘Writing #MakingYourMark’
Forthcoming Events inspired by the exhibition include @MichaelRosenYes on children’s Alphabet Books
https://t.co/LMQt2UB2pu