The Bibliographical Society is delighted to announce the launch of a redesigned version of the London Book Trades Database, details of which are in this month’s Council’s Choice:
bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
📖✨material texts!✨📖
the three most recent titles in the @universitypress.cambridge.org ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series.
if you have an idea for an element (25K-30K words) on shakespeare & text (broadly conceived) contact me & @loughnrv.bsky.social!
ℹ️: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
A great book at a great price!
COMING SOON!
imaging of john milton’s copy of holinshed’s CHRONICLES (1587) is complete!
thanks to the staff @ransomcenter.bsky.social for doing the work & to our friends at the phoenix public library for transporting the book.
📷: natasha zoghlin, digital imaging technician with the book
if you would like a copy, it is now relatively affordable: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
& here are some nice things that some very nice people have said about it.
quarto-making day!
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your reminder on shakespeare’s (birth/)death day that a young john milton hand wrote the missing R&J prologue in his copy of the first folio, titling it
“The prologue to Juliet and Romeo”
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to explore milton’s copy of the book: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feat...
this key part of the MILTON’S LIBRARY project would not have been possible without funding from @pennstateuniv.bsky.social COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. liberal arts. 🙏🏼
cc: @aarontpratt.bsky.social @jes1003.bsky.social
