Joseph Hone
@josephhone.bsky.social
Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
What I love is that Pollard is so humour-deaf, he has marked these in proof and written 'notch, both'. Then, on a second pass, 'Deliberate?'
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
What I love is that Pollard is so humour-deaf, he has marked these in proof and written 'notch, both'. Then, on a second pass, 'Deliberate?'
Very cool idea. And useful, too, I imagine. As for this copy, it's the best. Gems like this abound:
October 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Very cool idea. And useful, too, I imagine. As for this copy, it's the best. Gems like this abound:
I've been look over Graham Pollard's interleaved proof copy: correcting all Carter's mistakes! Fun book.
October 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I've been look over Graham Pollard's interleaved proof copy: correcting all Carter's mistakes! Fun book.
Ah yes that slightly spoils the gag. They make up for it with the addition of 'misgrint' though!
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ah yes that slightly spoils the gag. They make up for it with the addition of 'misgrint' though!
Did a fun activity last year where the students had to handle a book blindfolded, and work out as much as they could about it without seeing it. They were all surprised at just how much they could gauge by touch alone!
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Did a fun activity last year where the students had to handle a book blindfolded, and work out as much as they could about it without seeing it. They were all surprised at just how much they could gauge by touch alone!
A very silly but great book.
June 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A very silly but great book.
Sensible people are just going to defer publication on everything until right before the cut-off date to buy flexibility.
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Sensible people are just going to defer publication on everything until right before the cut-off date to buy flexibility.
At least buying one is hell too!
June 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At least buying one is hell too!
It’s like Twitter ten years ago!!
June 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It’s like Twitter ten years ago!!
Oh—and the relevant notes in the Mack archive are in box 62.
June 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Oh—and the relevant notes in the Mack archive are in box 62.
Mack doesn’t know who she is, but her contact to Pope is William Cheselden and Martha Blount didn’t like her. She seems to have been completely infatuated with Pope and impossible to shake off.
June 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Mack doesn’t know who she is, but her contact to Pope is William Cheselden and Martha Blount didn’t like her. She seems to have been completely infatuated with Pope and impossible to shake off.
Aha! Maynard Mack writes about this manuscript at length in his Pope biography: pp. 796-801. It’s been on my ‘find this’ list for ages.
June 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Aha! Maynard Mack writes about this manuscript at length in his Pope biography: pp. 796-801. It’s been on my ‘find this’ list for ages.
I’m going to have nightmares about Eric.
May 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I’m going to have nightmares about Eric.
But no books on his shelves!
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
But no books on his shelves!
YWES is usually pretty thorough!
May 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
YWES is usually pretty thorough!
All I ask for are signed holographs by major authors. Is that really too much?
May 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
All I ask for are signed holographs by major authors. Is that really too much?