(Commences 27 mins in. Happily I will be doing a longer talk about this for the @ies-sas.bsky.social Book Collecting Seminar in March - details to follow!)

Bibliographical Society - Panel for Grant Recipients YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society

Now online @bibsoc.bsky.social a gallop through my research on the incunabula & early printed books of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): rare books collector, savant, scholar, slave owner.
I emphasise attention to the social circumstances routinely elided in #bookhistory
youtu.be/JdXfbqTvsKI?...

The illustrated letter heads of H. & B.J. Stevens, American book dealers and bibliographers based in London in the mid to late 19th-century is gloriously camp!

The relaunch of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/relaunch-of-...

a man with a beard is holding a book next to another man who is laughing and saying yeah that 's Alt: Gif of Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet, with Bonnet being reprimanded for replacing the books with ones he's already read. Blackbeard, customarily dour in black leather, takes a book from the ever-excited Stede, wearing blue with a lacy cravat and cuffs, and says "Yeah, that's... That's not how looting works, mate."

Our Flag Means Books! ☠️📚🏴‍☠️

Wrote a little thing about books and pirates, popular culture, love, and nerding out in the library...

Ahoy, @david-jenkins.bsky.social! It's for @globalmarhist.bsky.social:
globalmaritimehistory.com/our-flag-mea...
#ofmd #OurFlagMeansBooks

15th-century engraving of a person with no trousers and their head stuck up a wooden barrel

German Beer Day.

Opening of a 17th-century English book.

Screenshot of a holdings and provenance note in a catalogue record

And how is it you come about having all these books ..?
This made me look up who is the patron saint of cleaners.
#rarebooks

An engraving illustrating a figure in a hammock suspended between two tropical trees. The source is a 17th-century Frankfurt book of emblems. Weird.

Rolling 🖤
A 17th-century emblem book from the Palatinate still making people dream of finer shores