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Joseph Hone

@josephhone.bsky.social
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Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope

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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!
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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
By what I still worry must be a glaring clerical error, I will be spending the coming term at All Souls. Let’s catch up, Oxford people! www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-jo...
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Dr Joseph Hone | All Souls College
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Someone has never hosted a birthday party for a three year old.
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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Where’s Hilary gone?!
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Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Registration for the 3rd Queer Bibliography symposium is now live! Please share widely. Attendance is FREE with registration; the symposium runs 11-13 June both in-person at Newcastle University (UK) & online. Register (by 09 June): bit.ly/QB2025Register Short Programme: bit.ly/QB2025ShortP...
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Queer Bibliography 2025: Attendee Registration
Please fill out the form below to register for attendance for Queer Bibliography 2025: In the Making, held at Newcastle University (UK) 11-13 June 2025, on site and online. If you are speaking, you ar...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
On a list! And with Henry Hemming and Kate Summerscale, too. Chuffed.
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Good lord. This collation is becoming deranged. MN?!!
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Here’s my diary for this month’s Literary Review. Mostly it’s about Julia Donaldson. literaryreview.co.uk/destroy-whil...
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Joseph Hone - Destroy While Reading
Joseph Hone: Destroy While Reading
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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I saw this wonderful copy of F1 today at Berkeley (shakespearecensus.org/sc/5202/) This page looks absolutely normal at a glance. But all the prelims in this copy are facsimile. Normally this would be seen as loss, but these are by the 19th-century master of the art, John Harris. 1/3
"To the great Variety of Readers" in the Berkeley copy of the Shakespeare First Folio
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Very happy to have this piece in the new PBSA. Sure it’s a tad provocative in places, but even if people don’t agree on every point, hopefully it will be useful to think with. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Forensic Bibliography | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 119, No 1
Abstract This article traces the genealogy of “forensic bibliography” in the Anglophone world from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. It argues that many of the methods and procedures ...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Is there anything more satisfying than completing a set, one volume at a time, over many years and across many second-hand bookshops?
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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
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Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Sorry. The WHAT eating house?
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Here’s a game. Just filed a review for next month’s @historytoday.com. Who am I talking about?
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
They said it couldn’t be done! All three Reynolds Stone alphabets ready to be mounted and framed.
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Seb Falk @sebfalk.com · 05/12/2024
Fabulous 2-year fellowship at @theul.bsky.social / @theulspeccoll.bsky.social! The Munby Fellowship has been doubled this year! They're particularly seeking applications that combine Bibliography/History of the Book & Natural History. Closing date 17 Jan, start October 2025. www.lib.cam.ac.uk/munby
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Munby Fellowship
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What a lovely list to be part of!
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Today’s set-up. Will my eyes survive the day?
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
@historytoday.com asked for my books of the year: featuring Noel Malcolm and @misswalsingham.bsky.social
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 28/11/2024
Nice to see Noel Malcolm's Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 included here, chosen by @josephhone.bsky.social. 🌈📚🗃️
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have a toddler zooming around the house shouting ‘no dinner; just chocolate’. It’s going to be an evening.
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Okay here’s a puzzle. Saw this cool book in our Spec Colls: bookplate of Edward Burne-Jones. Except I’m pretty sure it’s in the Doves Type, which wasn’t commissioned till 1899. And EBJ died in 1898. Thoughts?
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Freezer died in the night. Send thoughts and prayers and £500 for a new one.
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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 26/09/2024
Hi everyone, I've made my first starter pack for Rare Books and Spec Coll folks. I am completely sure I've missed folks, so please speak up in a reply and I'll add you to the pack! follow on, friends! 📜 #bookhistory go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
I’ve always loved (and coveted) Reynolds Stone’s calligraphic bookplates. Decided to attempt a Stone-inspired bookplate for myself. I think they have turned out rather well!
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Today on the blog, Joe Black adds to the evidence we have assembled of the formidable library of Katherine Blount, whose interests were wide ranging and who thankfully left excellent evidence of her ownership #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17 earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/t...
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Thomas Pope Blount, Essays on Several Subjects (1697); Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Naturall Historie, comp. William Rawley (1685)
This post offers another instalment in the continuing and collaboratively written story of the growing library of Katherine (Butler) Blount: for earlier posts, see Sarah Lindenbaum, Sophie Floate, Wil...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Imagine putting all that work into a pen facsimile only to smudge it at the last second. Nightmare.
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Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Bibliographers! You MUST read this amazing piece by @josephhone.bsky.social in this month's Lit Review about the thief and book forger Thomas Wise. literaryreview.co.uk/he-steals-th...
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Joseph Hone - He Steals Them, of Course!
Joseph Hone: He Steals Them, of Course!
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Jetlagged to hell in the Morgan, and I’m reminded just how wonderfully trusting and permissive special collections librarians are in the UK!
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
JOB: There’s a 12-month Research Associate post associated with my AHRC project on the history of book forgery. Deadline soon: 21 November. Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDU783/r... Always happy to receive informal questions via email.
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Research Associate at Newcastle University
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ODSECS @odsecs.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
If you couldn't be at our first seminar of the year, don't despair: the video of Ian Calvert talking about Alexander Pope's #18thC translation practices of Homer is now on YouTube. We've even got sneak peeks of Ian's forthcoming edition. #bookhistory
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ODSECS 30 Ian Calvert
Intervening in Pope’s HomerIn this talk, Dr Calvert outlines Alexander Pope’s practice of incorporating lines and phrases from an extremely wide range of tex...
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ODSECS @odsecs.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
October is here, so get ready for Ian Calvert covering Alexander Pope as translator for our first #18thc seminar this autumn in just a few weeks: 19 Oct @ 11am EDT/4pm BST. Free registration for the zoom below, #bookhistory 🗃️ folks please join us, spread the word.
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ODSECS 30: Dr Ian Calvert
Intervening in Pope's Homer
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Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Reposting from the other site...
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
It’s amazing m.youtube.com/watch?v=OYot...
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Robert Browning Recites His Poem (1889 Edison Cylinder)
This is one of the most important historic recording from 19th century. This recording contains the voice of great English poet, Robert Browning (1812 - 188...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
People seemed to enjoy Pope’s books. Now the good people in Spec Colls have put together a little online exhibition, so you can take a closer look (FWIW the inscribed ToF in ORIGINAL WRAPPERS feels like the find of a lifetime!). speccollstories.ncl.ac.uk/alexander-po...
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Alexander Pope and his Books
Alexander Pope and his Books: An exhibition focussing on the extraordinary collection of books in Newcastle University’s Special Collections & Archives and other libraries. These books were once own...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
Come and join the COOLEST PROJECT at QMUL & Cambridge! #bookhistory! Material culture! #reformazing history! #earlymodern chaos! COOL SCIENCE TOYS! All info & how to apply here: www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...
This is a fixed term three-year position for a postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary team of the AHRC-funded research project Hidden in Plain Sight: Historical and Scientific Analysis of Premodern Sacred Books. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting textual analysis and providing contextual information. They will work closely with scientists and technicians, under the supervision of PI and Co-Is, to investigate how sacred books were appropriated, mutilated, or used talismanically. They will examine a wide range of premodern books, primarily books transformed and mutilated in the course of religious reform; books transitioning between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe; and talismanic use of Scripture in non-European contexts. They will work alongside the project’s other Postdoctoral Research Associate (a Heritage Scientist) and liaise with the project’s technicians, curators, conservators, advisory board and faith communities. They will contribute to
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
We're hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on Written Worlds in 17th-century England at Birkbeck, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and me (CI), focusing on #EarlyModern non-elite writers. £42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
One for the #c18th crowd!
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I’ve got a piece in the new issue of The Library on some *very* special books that have resurfaced after 70+ years, including the below (no prizes for identifying the handwriting!). academic.oup.com/library/arti...
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