John Stone
@john-stone.bsky.social
Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
from the early modern period to the present day, d) Shakespeare’s role in the dialogue between English-speaking diasporas and Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the territories where they settled.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
from the early modern period to the present day, d) Shakespeare’s role in the dialogue between English-speaking diasporas and Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the territories where they settled.
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On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
On the back of one of those pasted-down sheets you wish had never seen paste, in a 1703 Compleat English Scholar (part of a diasporic library in #PalmadeMallorca). what might be a #dog.
On another leaf in the same book, he signed his name in English using the Spanish/Catalan naming custom: two surnames joined by a conjunction!
#bicultural
#binational
#bicultural
#binational
September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
On another leaf in the same book, he signed his name in English using the Spanish/Catalan naming custom: two surnames joined by a conjunction!
#bicultural
#binational
#bicultural
#binational
I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but.....
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but.....
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
#Irishdiaspora
#IrishinSpain
#diasporicbooks
#exlibris
#Mallorca
Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland!
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
September 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, in a 1763 Edinburgh edition, from the library of the Menorcan clergyman Miquel Rosselló, with no glossary! The sammelband's ex libris is dated 1802. Perhaps Rosselló has visited Scotland!
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
#ScottishprintontheContinent
#Edinburghprinttrade
#Ciutadella
Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella.
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Miguel or Miquel Rosselló y Flores, showing proper respect for future researchers by dating his acquisition of a sammelband--six plays in English in Dublin, Belfast, and Edinburgh editions--in 1802. The book is in Palma but I suspect his library was in Ciutadella.
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
#Englishbooksonthecontinent
From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca.
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
From a MS geometry textbook, early C18, now at the BPE Palma in beautiful downtown and sunny Palma de Mallorca.
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
#manuscriptculture
#mallorca
#glamaestheticsmeetshandwriting
With another Canadian, in Coruña.
July 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
With another Canadian, in Coruña.
C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is?
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
June 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
C18 friends, this object is one of many eighteenth-century artefacts I saw at a lovely museum in #Valencia. Can you guess what it is?
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
#eighteenthcentury
The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain?
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
April 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The bibliophile and bluestocking María Josefa Pimentel looking almost Wollstonecraftian in a mid 1790s miniature. The most important collector in late Enlightenment Spain?
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
#condesdeOsuna
#LazaroGaliano
#miniatures
#womenandbookhistory
And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.
April 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And I encourage other Canadians living abroad to do so.
From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism."
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
March 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
From the life of Behn in *All the Histories and Novels*: crossed out is "and for which reason the very Jesuits deny 'em Baptism."
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
The things you find in Spanish provincial libraries!
#AphraBehn
#diasporicreaders
#recusants
#Jesuits
From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness.
#humbledbyatinyhand
#humbledbyatinyhand
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
From a 1698 copy of Locke's *Two Treatises* on government, now at the BPE Toledo, one of a series of pages of MS notes designed to drive me to blindness or madness.
#humbledbyatinyhand
#humbledbyatinyhand
Catalan history for IWD! Founded in 1909 by Francesca Bonnemaison (after whom it is now named), the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona, part of a wider effort to open continuing education to women, was Europe's first women's library. Closed in 1936, it reopened as part of the Espai Bonnemaison in 2004.
March 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Catalan history for IWD! Founded in 1909 by Francesca Bonnemaison (after whom it is now named), the Biblioteca Popular de la Dona, part of a wider effort to open continuing education to women, was Europe's first women's library. Closed in 1936, it reopened as part of the Espai Bonnemaison in 2004.
Don't skimp on editors -- or coffee!
March 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Don't skimp on editors -- or coffee!
The book is *Witts Recreations* (1640) and the college was English, but not in Valladolid: this is one of two known survivors of the library at its Seville counterpart. Here's a bit more censorship (orire, on a reader's part): from an epitaph on Horatio Palavicino.
Someone stained their fingers!
Someone stained their fingers!
February 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The book is *Witts Recreations* (1640) and the college was English, but not in Valladolid: this is one of two known survivors of the library at its Seville counterpart. Here's a bit more censorship (orire, on a reader's part): from an epitaph on Horatio Palavicino.
Someone stained their fingers!
Someone stained their fingers!
Just a bit of censorship in an often bawdy book which once belonged to a recusant collection in Spain, in the seventeenth century.
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
February 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just a bit of censorship in an often bawdy book which once belonged to a recusant collection in Spain, in the seventeenth century.
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
Crossed out:
"On Rome.
Hate & debate, Rome through the world hath spread,
Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read:"
The second half of the epigram is untouched!
From the back of a 1616 Ben Jonson folio; or the moment a C18 person wonders why we now sometimes get called #earlymodernists.
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
December 14, 2024 at 11:43 AM
From the back of a 1616 Ben Jonson folio; or the moment a C18 person wonders why we now sometimes get called #earlymodernists.
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
This stuff is worse than Boswell!
Somebody got to look at the #Valladolid folio. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
#recusants
#censorship
#Shakespeare
#HolyOffice
#DiasporicBooks
#cutslikeaknife
#MeasureforMeasure
#KingLear
#FolgerFinds
#recusants
#censorship
#Shakespeare
#HolyOffice
#DiasporicBooks
#cutslikeaknife
#MeasureforMeasure
#KingLear
#FolgerFinds
December 13, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Somebody got to look at the #Valladolid folio. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
#recusants
#censorship
#Shakespeare
#HolyOffice
#DiasporicBooks
#cutslikeaknife
#MeasureforMeasure
#KingLear
#FolgerFinds
#recusants
#censorship
#Shakespeare
#HolyOffice
#DiasporicBooks
#cutslikeaknife
#MeasureforMeasure
#KingLear
#FolgerFinds
If AI could do any one useful thing, it would be reading whatever's been crossed out, smudged, torn or singed.
#stillwaiting
#BenJonson
#DuquesdeOsuna
#Madrid
#EnglishPrintinSpain
#stillwaiting
#BenJonson
#DuquesdeOsuna
#Madrid
#EnglishPrintinSpain
December 11, 2024 at 5:30 PM
If AI could do any one useful thing, it would be reading whatever's been crossed out, smudged, torn or singed.
#stillwaiting
#BenJonson
#DuquesdeOsuna
#Madrid
#EnglishPrintinSpain
#stillwaiting
#BenJonson
#DuquesdeOsuna
#Madrid
#EnglishPrintinSpain
In Part 1 of "All Fellowships are Connected," a C18 recipe for "Spanish Olio" attributed to George Keith, who also sent recipes to the Boswells: the Folger meets the Beinecke!
Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo.
#FolgerFinds
#cocido
#ollapodrida
Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo.
#FolgerFinds
#cocido
#ollapodrida
December 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
In Part 1 of "All Fellowships are Connected," a C18 recipe for "Spanish Olio" attributed to George Keith, who also sent recipes to the Boswells: the Folger meets the Beinecke!
Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo.
#FolgerFinds
#cocido
#ollapodrida
Found in Aberdeen in the early C20: the owner was connected to the Forbes of Pitsligo.
#FolgerFinds
#cocido
#ollapodrida
Priced at 125 pesetas by a twentieth-century bookseller (Vindel?) and donated to the Folger by a German-born collector. No marginalia in Spanish yet!
#FolgerFinds
#Shakespeare
#EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain
#FolgerFinds
#Shakespeare
#EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain
December 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Priced at 125 pesetas by a twentieth-century bookseller (Vindel?) and donated to the Folger by a German-born collector. No marginalia in Spanish yet!
#FolgerFinds
#Shakespeare
#EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain
#FolgerFinds
#Shakespeare
#EnglishPrintinEarlyModernSpain
What the periods mean is anyone's guess. Catalan uses French periodisation, though in literary studies the terms are a bit looser. Still, if the same post were advertised in Catalan rather than English lit, early modernists could apply. Can they? The post is in English: the posting is in Catalan.
December 3, 2024 at 7:59 PM
What the periods mean is anyone's guess. Catalan uses French periodisation, though in literary studies the terms are a bit looser. Still, if the same post were advertised in Catalan rather than English lit, early modernists could apply. Can they? The post is in English: the posting is in Catalan.
Quote and tell me (because I'm always curious about what people are reading): what are you reading just now that you would recommend?
I am only 50 pages into Peter Burke's *Ignorance*: I will be a bit dodgy and report that his *Exiles and Expatriates* was my right book at the right time. #diasporas
I am only 50 pages into Peter Burke's *Ignorance*: I will be a bit dodgy and report that his *Exiles and Expatriates* was my right book at the right time. #diasporas
November 22, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Quote and tell me (because I'm always curious about what people are reading): what are you reading just now that you would recommend?
I am only 50 pages into Peter Burke's *Ignorance*: I will be a bit dodgy and report that his *Exiles and Expatriates* was my right book at the right time. #diasporas
I am only 50 pages into Peter Burke's *Ignorance*: I will be a bit dodgy and report that his *Exiles and Expatriates* was my right book at the right time. #diasporas
1. Portrait of John Geddes, Rector of the RSC, now at the RCSA, #Valladolid: lower left.
2. Part of the Royal #Scots College library (now in #Salamanca), much of which bears notes in Geddes's hand.
Same books? Same binding?
#bookhistory
#ScotsinSpain
#SigloXVIII
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
2. Part of the Royal #Scots College library (now in #Salamanca), much of which bears notes in Geddes's hand.
Same books? Same binding?
#bookhistory
#ScotsinSpain
#SigloXVIII
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
November 15, 2024 at 6:29 PM
1. Portrait of John Geddes, Rector of the RSC, now at the RCSA, #Valladolid: lower left.
2. Part of the Royal #Scots College library (now in #Salamanca), much of which bears notes in Geddes's hand.
Same books? Same binding?
#bookhistory
#ScotsinSpain
#SigloXVIII
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury
2. Part of the Royal #Scots College library (now in #Salamanca), much of which bears notes in Geddes's hand.
Same books? Same binding?
#bookhistory
#ScotsinSpain
#SigloXVIII
#eighteenthcentury
#18thcentury