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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks so much for this and the other suggestions. I’ve got a bit of catching up to do!

Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Interesting! I’d read that Elizabeth Blackwell also coloured her own plates for her first edition but it does beg the question about scale (don’t know how many she produced)

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you, I’ll see if I can chase this down! I have wondered how scientifically useful the colours would have been

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I would love to see this if you do find it! (Custodian of some outrageously blingy botanicals here)

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Another copy, this one delicately coloured. From the 1644 edition of Rembert Dodoens’ Cruydt-boeck, printed in Antwerp by Balthasar Moretus

A hand-coloured woodcut of seaweed, close up

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Love the watery effect that the block cutter has achieved here for these seaweed woodcuts

A page from a 17th-century book, with text in Dutch and three woodcut illustrations of seaweeds. The woodcuts have wavy lines across to show they’re underwater

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Christopher Robin looks about a year younger

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Umm holy crow this is completely amazing? Consciousness expanding music? where have I even been

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The camerawork alone is perfection

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Thanks! I’ll be looking out for this phenomenon now too. What’s the book incidentally?

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 27/06/2026

Cc @andrask.bsky.social Suspect 2 sheets going through press at same time is the answer, thank you, here is another example from same book (impression of sig A2 recto on sig A8 recto!)

Sig A8 recto (RHS)!- with blind impression of sig A2 recto.

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Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com · 26/06/2026

I don’t think I have seen this before. This sheet seems to have been printed un-inked and then printed inked.

Signature C4 below a printed line. Below this, the same in blind.

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Two sheets going through the press at the same time in error, then separated for a second pass?

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

is this the most diacritically endowed placename in Europe?

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ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

One French exonym thing I particularly like is how we pronounce the final s on its capital city's name, but then put a final silent s on to the names of its two second cities.

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Firenze. But saying Florence im a French accent would be pretty bad

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#earlymodern Writing about blanks in almanacs and how they are annotated and especially love this tortoise appearance (this is a 1649 Lilly almanac in the Emerson Collection)

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

took a reading off a childhood toy and it measured 3.5 Prousts

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Look, that’s the sort of thing that really delights us: a well-thumbed manuscript that contains a wealth of information about a private library and book prices in the 18th c (ms. 1901). You’re always welcome to study this in our reading room (once the temperature has dropped a bit). (1/2)

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 22/06/2026

Noticed on this 17th-century map the spelling "mershe" for 'marsh' – this is the older spelling, before the 'ER > AR' sound change that affected 'starboard', 'darling' and the pronunciation of 'sergeant' too. The change obscures the etymology of 'marsh': as literally 'mere-ish', a lake-like thing.

Close-up of a map showing part of Norfolk, labelled "Mersheland"

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is in Spanish, right?

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this is the exact tactic used nefariously by a dad in Frank Cottrell Boyce’s Cosmic to juice his ranking

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Moritz Ernst Jacob 📯 @hallfiry.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Man stelle sich den hirnrissigen Brief vor, den der Verlag eines Tages bekommen hat, und ihn dazu veranlasste, so einen Hinweis zu schreiben.

Foto einer Buchseite mit der Aufschrift "Leerseiten verbilligen in diesem Fall die Herstellung des Buches!"

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

ist sowieso egal, da die Seiten offensichtlich nicht mehr leer sind

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In-text citations or footnotes? I wrote a few regex routines for this kind of scenario when I was a copy editor, to extract all name/date combis in brackets and list them in order. Then compare with bibliography. Try regex101.com

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy 283rd birthday, Anna Letitia Barbauld! Here, from 1795, is her at once funny, domestic, and sublime poem "Inscription for an Ice-House," offered in honour of her day, and also as a reminder to my UK friends who are anticipating a heat wave. Do consider putting ice in your drinks please!

Inscription for an Ice-House
Stranger, approach! within this iron door
Thrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneath
That vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confined
By man, the great magician, who controuls
Fire, earth and air, and genii of the storm,
And bends the most remote and opposite things
To do him service and perform his will,—
A giant sits; stern Winter; here he piles,
While summer glows around, and southern gales
Dissolve the fainting world, his treasured snows
Within the rugged cave.—Stranger, approach!
He will not cramp thy limbs with sudden age,
Nor wither with his touch the coyest flower
That decks thy scented hair. Indignant here,
Like fettered Sampson when his might was spent
In puny feats to glad the festive halls
Of Gaza's wealthy sons; or he who sat
Midst laughing girls submiss, and patient twirled
The slender spindle in his sinewy grasp;
The rugged power, fair Pleasure's minister,
Exerts his art to deck the genial board;
Congeals the melting peach, the nectarine smooth,
Burnished and glowing from the sunny wall:
Darts sudden frost into the crimson veins
Of the moist berry; moulds the sugared hail:
Cools with his icy breath our flowing cups;
Or gives to the fresh dairy's nectared bowls
A quicker zest. Sullen he plies his task,
And on his shaking fingers counts the weeks
Of lingering Summer, mindful of his hour
To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year.

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Seems like this could equally confirm people’s choice: at least they themselves will be ‘safer’ in a big car

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

An outstanding find, and a fascinating, forensic article on the room, the people and the event depicted here. I read it on my phone on the bus as it couldn’t wait till I got home - looking forward to rereading on a bigger screen where I can look closely at the many illustrations

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Joris Oddens @jorisoddens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Historische sensatie! In 2023 stuitte ik op een volstrekt onbekend schilderij. Het bleek te gaan om een voorstelling van de Staten-Generaal en een verbeelding van het ontstaan van Nederland als soevereine staat. Lees nu het volledige verhaal in Early Modern Low Countries. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I’m reading it right now for the first time and this is exactly the vibe

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

‘Se hace camino al andar’, per Machado

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Carpe pm.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When we were asked to provide a map of Framley, we bloodymindedly put one on the endpapers, but the map at the front disagreed with the one at the back, with the towns all in different places. It also wrapped round, like the maze does in Pac Man.

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

(I hit save and see many others have done the same)

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Does this glorious substance have a name?

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How about Philip Reeve’s Railhead series? Intergalactic space travel on sentient (sarcastic) trains… loads of action! Great jokes. inventive tech incl at least some robots

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The window reflected in the map frame in the 3rd picture looks more like a casement than the sash windows I’ve seen in Glasgow. also doubtful about the the ?radiator

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Geoguessr and historical design friends: any ideas whether the below 1923 photos were taken in Geneva, Glasgow, or Athens? There's a book spine and a map, both barely legible (this is the highest res I have). Argh!

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Oddenda @oddenda.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Can’t believe I allowed May to dupe me into changing over to the summer duvet

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