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

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.

Listen to @BLprintheritage Curator @MaddySmith1804 talk about opening up the ‘Private Case’, the word’s best collection of forbidden and erotic books, held @britishlibrary
‘Anything But Silent: A British Library Podcast’ Season 1, Episode 5.
https://t.co/76GKrvg57z

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’
https://t.co/SNKSxuwFci

Relatively simple, but very emotionally evocative woodcuts by Vivien Gribble from the Macmillan & Co., 1926, large paper edition 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles: a pure woman faithfully presented’.
300 or so were printed on large paper.
#WoodcutWednesday
#britishlibrary K.T.C.36.b.14

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

@UniRdg_SpecColl Worth going to https://t.co/W2yKBSnPCk
Click on the Gallery radio button type in 'Baskerville' and have a look at the variety of bindings.Then check out "c188b17": look at the end leaves there. There is a useful reference to an article on B’s bindings and marbled end leaves.

In 1939 haunted Borley Rectory burned down. Do you dream like Andrew Laing?
#bookbindings

https://t.co/zTpYZ4SnRh

And I'll leave you with some other pressed plants from a book in our collection (L.R.414.a.17) - who knew seaweed could be so pretty?!