Very cool idea. And useful, too, I imagine. As for this copy, it's the best. Gems like this abound:

How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!

Where’s Hilary gone?!

And mine is in December (and my tastes are a lot cheaper!).

Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.

Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along! www.english.cam.ac.uk/cmt/?cat=6

Good lord. This collation is becoming deranged. MN?!!

Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

Is there anything more satisfying than completing a set, one volume at a time, over many years and across many second-hand bookshops?

Sorry. The WHAT eating house?

Here’s a game. Just filed a review for next month’s @historytoday.com. Who am I talking about?

They said it couldn’t be done! All three Reynolds Stone alphabets ready to be mounted and framed.

Today’s set-up. Will my eyes survive the day?

Okay here’s a puzzle. Saw this cool book in our Spec Colls: bookplate of Edward Burne-Jones. Except I’m pretty sure it’s in the Doves Type, which wasn’t commissioned till 1899. And EBJ died in 1898. Thoughts?

I’ve always loved (and coveted) Reynolds Stone’s calligraphic bookplates. Decided to attempt a Stone-inspired bookplate for myself. I think they have turned out rather well!

Not just any old scrap scrap of newspaper! Tutchin’s Observator, 3rd ser. 80 (20 Jan. 1705).

Imagine putting all that work into a pen facsimile only to smudge it at the last second. Nightmare.

I’ve got a piece in the new issue of The Library on some *very* special books that have resurfaced after 70+ years, including the below (no prizes for identifying the handwriting!). academic.oup.com/library/arti...