David Levy

2025: The Year in Collecting I added some wonderful books to my collection in 2025. You saw two of them in the essay "2025: The Year of McTear". Of the others, many cam...

New blog post: "2025: The Year in Collecting"

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#SuperbOwl Sunday!

At the 24-hour mark, I'm at eleven loose ends. Err...twelve.

This sounds useful! My first card is "Identify all loose threads."

2025: The Year of McTear I have been thinking of 2025 as the Year of McTear for reasons that will become apparent in this essay. But the story begins earlier. Two ye...

New Blog Post: 2025: The Year of McTear

I always thought it was the piggy that went to market.

So π1 and b1 are conjugate? As are the inserted a1 and a2? I might have said π1 a² b²(b1+a²) with a note in the signing statement that b1 is unsigned and b2 is signed "b1". Am I missing something?

I knew it was the Dublin books that were 12mos gathered in eights and fours. I looked at the code and I did it with markup (<sup>) rather than Unicode. It works both for html/xml and for wordml.

I don't remember how I did this and am not at home to check: booksongaming.com/hoyle/biblio...

A blog is a first draft of a monograph!

If only Rebecca Burleigh had felt free to use her forename on her imprints. I have a similar example available upon request.

I have just started to read Chocolate House Treason by David Fairer. Among the historical figures, I was delighted to find John Morphew, who is represented in my collection.

A 2025 Acquisition and Some Housekeeping Before I get to the housekeeping, here is a rare little whist booklet that came my way.  The Laws of Whist, for the Pocket-Book Levy [2230] ...

A new blog post: "A 2025 Acquisition and Some Housekeeping"

edmondhoyle.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-20...

I'm here, but do much better with card games than chess!

I just purchased a c1800 manuscript in Italian on the card game of piquet. It will take a while to make sense of it, but intriguingly it collates [A]^4 [B]^6 (B5+Χ^2) [C]-[D]^4.

It's time to re-post this for #SuperbOwl Sunday

Humans don't do such a great job on "coverage decisions" either. The health care insurance model is badly broken...

An exhibit at San Francisco MoMA: "Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture" had this interesting bookish item.

Last year, Garland was paired with Mobley, Mitchell with Allen. This year it is the other way around. What is the theory behind the change? Do the data support it? Much thanks. I enjoy the pod!

2024: The Year in Collecting I found some spectacular books this year: two Hoyles and a third book that is not obviously a Hoyle, but certainly belongs in my Hoyle colle...

After a long hiatus, a new blog post--"2024: The Year in Collecting"

edmondhoyle.blogspot.com/2024/11/2024...

My tweets and I have made the Xodus.

#SuperbOwl

New blog post: 2023: The Year in Collecting.

https://edmondhoyle.blogspot.com/2023/12/2023-year-in-collecting.html

https://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-zoom-levy-on-the-game-of-trictrac-and-flamm-on-vigos-1514-practica-in-arte-chirurgica

Book friends: If you belong to FABS (The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies) club, please attend my short virtual talk, “Three Pairs of Books on the Game of Trictrac.” Monday November 13 at 4:30pm Pacific:...

A new blog post: Oddly Imposed. Oddly Signed.
https://edmondhoyle.blogspot.com/2023/05/oddly-imposed-oddly-signed.html

But do they have stem bolts?

New blog post—2022: The Year in Collecting

See https://edmondhoyle.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-year-in-collecting.html

On December 6 at 9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern, I will be giving a talk at the Bibliographical Society in London. If you are interested, you can register here to see it on Zoom: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/bibliographical-society-a-century-and-a-quarter-hoyle

Ooh, mark your calendars! http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/event/century-and-quarter-hoyle