Dunk, turn, dunk, turn, dunk…If you're doing one textblock, why not do eight? G.A. Olivier's Entomologie (Paris 1789-1808). #MarbledMonday #MarbledPaper #SpecialCollections #BlueSkyBooks

A lovely thing to end the week on: Thomas Martyn's Aranei : or a natural history of Spiders (London, 1793). Bound by Christian Samuel Kalthhoeber? Perhaps. A striking frontispiece? Definitely.

One of the more interesting bindings to pass across my desk recently. #bookbinding #specialcollections #naturalhistorymuseum #blueskybooks #rarebooks

The things I couldn't walk past this week, including a trip over the road to the V&A. #bookbinding #Incunabula #Endbands #marbling #VictoriaAndAlbertMuseum #RareBooks #shelfie

This week's encounters of the bookish kind. #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #MarbledDesigns #Endpapers #BlueSkyBooks #Shelfie

What distracted me this week at work. #SpecialCollections #Bookbinding #Endpapers #NaturalHistoryMuseum #tickets #Bookplates #BlueSkyBooks

One day, I'll be able to walk through the stacks without getting distracted. One day. #bookbinding #tradebindings

So many lovely books in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social‬, so little time to spend with each... #Cataloguing #RareBooks #Provenance #Endpapers

Made from 100% endpapers and artworks from @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social collections.

Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum

I suspect that, when making this, my enthusiasm for #bookbinding and #bookbindings triumphed over snappy post length...

Cataloguing ‪@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social‬ collections brings all sorts of surprises -- I settled for "Two boxes of glass microscopic slides as reproduced in serial 'Studies in microscopical science' (1882-1887)". No eye of newt, but close! #cataloguing #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum