Coffee-lover. Collector, dealer & blogger on illustrated & finely bound books, pictorial bindings and literary mysteries. Literary detective. #beautifulbooks.
Canterbury, Kent
Joined July 2014
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Ilkley Book Fair returns this month yourilkley.com/local-news/il…
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We knew the librarian Mary Pollard had a printing press in Marsh's Library in the 1970s on which she printed poetry and other single-sheet items. We DIDN'T know until just now that she printed early Seamus Heaney poems and he signed them.....
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"This manuscript is the earliest extant copy of Bede’s History, and may well have been copied at his own monastery, at Wearmouth or Jarrow, within a few years of his death.."
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.16; Moore Bede; mid-late 730s; Wearmouth Jarrow; f.3r @CamDigLib
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Music at Marsh's! What a delight it was yesterday to host a pop-up viol concert by viola de gamba group 'The Spirit of Gambo'. Here they are by the cages playing music from our founder Narcissus Marsh's own book of viol music
Check out their website: thespiritofgambo.nl/
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Henry Bradshaw’s bookish rooms in the Wilkins Building @Kings_College, probably shortly after his death in 1886. Bradshaw was Librarian @theUL 1867-86. For #BookLoversDay. Photograph is @theULSpecColl Cam.a.500.10.
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How to collect rare books - a beginner’s guide
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🦊Competition time! To celebrate high summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my retelling of Reynard the Fox, an excellent beach read, a copy of my Fox for All Seasons lined journal, with ribbon & map endpapers & a charming fox companion! Like, retweet & follow to enter!
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Last Few Hours - 40% off Books from CL Hawley - mailchi.mp/76550723c413/40-o…
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The March Online Book Fair from the @pbfaorg opened at noon today. Lots of books to browse and buy directly from their sellers. pbfa.org/fairs/march-online-…
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Celebrating 5960 (!) followers with a giveaway 😃
Win
* The Colour Storm
* The Bleeding (complete with sprayed edges 😍)
* Really Good, Actually special SIGNED edition
* Chocolate
* Bookish candle
Like, follow, RT to be in with a chance
Closes Sun 25th at 5pm. UK only please.
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GIVEAWAY! To celebrate 150 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ratings on Amazon, I’m giving away one paperback copy of The Secrets We Keep along with a matching mug! Retweet and follow to enter. UK only. Competition closes midnight 23 March 2023
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For the mid-week crowd: #BookCollecting doesn't have to be an expensive hobby. In fact, you're probably already a book collector. Yes, you! Read 'How to be a student book collector', & find out how your collecting might just net you a cash prize... blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll…
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Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be based on one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #WomensArt
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#OTD ‘a stupendous movement which is destined to revolutionise the most historical corner of England ... and incidentally, as I believe, to make Kent magnates in the future’. A. Conan Doyle on Kent coal mining, 26 Feb 1914. kent-maps.online/19c/19c-con…
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As the 300th anniversary of the death of Christopher Wren begins, a PUNCH cartoon from his bicentenary in 1923: "Ah, Wren! Great Man! What can we do to honour his bi-centenary? I know. Knock some of his churches down!" #WW2 did the rest #Wren300 #architecture #London
