The Catalog of Distinctive Type (1660-1700) If, like me, you spend a lot of time worrying about who printed what in later seventeenth-century England, then the Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT), compi...

Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...

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 ...

The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) is pleased to announce its annual Essay Prize for 2025, to be awarded to a scholarly article that exemplifies the Society’s mis...

In late 1689, two anonymous octavos appeared that shook the foundations of divi...

Print & Probability is an interdisciplinary, NEH- and NSF-funded project at the intersection of book history, computer vision, and machine learning. We develop tools and methods for discovering letterpress printers whose identities have eluded scholars for several hundred years.

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Image by Dr. Tara Lyons with permission of Reader’s Books, Petworth, UK. This 1630 English Bible has an array of evidence of women’s book ownership. At the top of the front cover’…

“Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press,” a di...