Dr. Tara Lyons

Loooooooooooooooong Book

#NewberryLibrary (Vault Case MS minus VM 1619 M98) #shelfie

Hah! I wonder what the Emerita awards look like!

as long as they the “woke” fonts, I’m happy!

Honored to have received the Outstanding University Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty from Illinois State University.

Lovely annotation designs too.

Bathsua Reginal Makin’s Books at Dulwich College, London By Tamara Atkin In a blog post earlier this year, I announced the discovery of a book once owned by the ten-year-old Bathsua Reginal Makin, scholar and teacher, who in the 1640s was tutor to Prince…

Delighted to have a brand new post from @tamarajatkin.bsky.social with some excellent research on more books owned by Bathsua Makin; the picture of Makin as a writer is becoming more complex with each discovery earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b... #EarlyModern #HerBook

This arrived in the mail today. My essay analyzes Greg’s Bibliography of English Printed Drama and its idiosyncratic taxonomies for “Collections,” which prioritized canonical authors like Shakespeare but completely excluded dramatists like Margaret Cavendish.

Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org

Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1615) A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving and of the Greatest Mystery Therein Contained: How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad was written by Alexander Niccholes, self-identified as a “Batchelour in the Ar…

Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏

A fantastic book history project!

The cover of "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier," with the font in white over a green-tinted landscape painting of three Indigenous women on a raft, moving across a lake with mountains in the background. Partial images of four different people - Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis- fold over the left side of the cover from the spine.

And ... voila!

Thanks again to my sharp-eyed copyeditor, and to @joshuajfriedman.com and @bcdreyer.social!

Just more evidence that social media can be a force for good (grammar) ...

Wow, is the spine still intact?!! Incredible!

This is what I’m talkin’ about!! Thick, stout, and chonky!!

I’d love to learn more about it.

Fabulous!! Thank you so much!!

Early Modern Biblionerds: I’m looking for some thick books before 1700. what is the longest book (in pages, not words) printed before 1700? what about in quarto format?

Illustrated frontispiece with three detailed engraved bees over a botanical border and title page .

Table of contents listing all ten chapters.

Illustrated plate with an engraving showing an internal model of a hive along with bees and the hive in various stages of development.

Illustrated foldout plate of a person seated and writing at a large desk with books in the background and a row of 6 beehives visible outside his large window.

#Bees 🐝 1744 book! "Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy..." printed in London for author John Thorley.
4 plates of illustrations & 10 chapters covering everything bees!
Catalog: bit.ly/melisselogia...
#Pollinators #18thCentury #NatureSky #IllustratedBooks #NaturalHistory #nature #RareBooks

The real reason academic conferences exist is that after you have marinated your brain in hundreds of books on a single field of study for 10+ years there are only so many people you can speak coherent sentences to, and it’s a pleasure to have them all in one place 😅

Booklist preserved from 3rd century Memphis (P. Petropol. 13).

Kind of cool to see that they had a copy of Aristotle's "Athenaion Politeia" (line 12)! (From Wilcken "Chrestomathie" n. 155)

Francesca Wade · Why waste time hot airing? The Best-Paid Woman in NYC In​ her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal...

‘As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, outbidding and outsmarting rivals wherever she went.’

Francesca Wade on Belle da Costa Greene:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What an accomplishment! Amazing work here on Alice Thornton!

Thanks, C! Big returns from slow work!

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

#herbook #bookhistory

In 1671, Rachel (Fane) Bouchier, the Countess of Bath, purchased £200 of books for the library at @tcddublin.bsky.social The books were housed together and known as “The Countess of Bath’s Library.” This week I reconstructed the bequest, with the help of the amazing TCD librarians.

Promotional image advertising 'Wills Project Transcribathon, Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, Digital Humanities Lab University of Exeter and on Zoom. The image also features a portrait of a man making his will, a photo of a box of wills and a page of a will.

📢WILLS TRANSCRIBATHON KLAXON📢

Join us on Thursday 24 July to transcribe wills and go behind the scenes of the wills project!

In person and on Zoom - full details & registration here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #transcription @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

So many baby horses in Ireland this time of year! I’m in love 😍

This symposium looks fabulous!

Photo (by David McInnis) of Australian artist Jimmy C’s famous mural of Shakespeare in Clink Street near the Globe. It depicts Shakespeare as known via the Chandos portrait, holding a skull like Hamlet does, and a quill, in front of a psychedelic swirl of colour.

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare

This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest!

More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...