Dr Grace Touzel
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Dr Grace Touzel
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Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
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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.
September 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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One of the more interesting bindings to pass across my desk recently. #bookbinding #specialcollections #naturalhistorymuseum #blueskybooks #rarebooks
August 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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
An open antique book photographed from one end. The marbled edge of the book is held by an endband of alternating blue and white. Three photographs of a 15th century book. Top lett, the closed book showing a brown leather spine and marbled paper. Top right, an open page with blue painted U. Bottom, the book edge, with "Ruralia" inked on the edge. Four coloured book spines titled "Siberia in Asia" and "Siberia in Europe". Spines left to right are brown, orange, tan, blue. A closely cropped image of three stacked books. The lower two have marbled edges of blue, yellow, pink, and white.
August 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This week's encounters of the bookish kind. #SpecialCollections #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #MarbledDesigns #Endpapers #BlueSkyBooks #Shelfie
Two photos of a 5-volume set of books on a shelf. Each image shows 19th century marbling on volumes now in 20th century bindings. A wooden library shelf holding 15 small notebooks bound in brown leather. A split image showing a black and cream swirling pattern at left, and a black and white crocodile-skin pattern at right. Both are book covers. A recurring design of purple lines and green leaves on a cloth background, in an Art Nouveau style.
August 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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What distracted me this week at work. #SpecialCollections #Bookbinding #Endpapers #NaturalHistoryMuseum #tickets #Bookplates #BlueSkyBooks
July 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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One day, I'll be able to walk through the stacks without getting distracted. One day. #bookbinding #tradebindings
July 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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So many lovely books in @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social‬, so little time to spend with each... #Cataloguing #RareBooks #Provenance #Endpapers
June 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum
A hand holding two books on fungi with covers of decorative paper. Title at left is 'Edible Fungi', at right is 'Poisonous Fungi'.
June 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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
May 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM