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David Shaw
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Book historian, active in the Bibliographical Society, lives in Canterbury (UK), plays early music wind instruments
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Storm Bert has removed one of my fence panels. But it was almost on its last legs anyway. But I shall need to get it replaced.
Blown down fence panel
November 25, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Looks like the Newberry is still making News!

(Sorry, still no photos of Sparky the dog, who found the books!)
chicago.suntimes.com/entertainmen...
Front page of Sun Times with me and the book collector as the main. Story: "Lost and Found: How rare books discovered on N. Side sidewalk were reunited with owner"
November 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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hlaehnemann.bsky.social
Spot the typo! Typeset my Christmas card today in the Bibliographic Press of @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social - caught two rogue characters just in time before going into production. This year's card in honour of 500 years of the Erfurt Enchiridion, the first Protestant printed hymnal
four lines of typeset text in black letter in a composing stick Forme with typeset text and linocut, next to the model, a hymnbook in quires from 1524, the Erfurt Enchiridion Christmas card printed in red and black and hand rolling red over the heading of the type in the forme
November 24, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.
Word Crunching I  wrote  a poem  on a page  but then each line grew  to the word sum of the previous two  until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency  because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency  Brian Bilston
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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bibsoc.bsky.social
For this month’s Council’s Choice on our website, Matthew Payne highlights AALT, which provides digitised documents from medieval and early modern England: bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...
Council’s Choice for September 2024 - Bibliographical Society
AALT: Digitised documents from medieval and early modern England The website of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition (http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT.html) is the result of a collaboration between the Unive...
bibsoc.org.uk
September 16, 2024 at 8:50 AM