I finally set my workstation background. It files like I am properly moved in. Also, I do not think I will ever be able to work without 2 screens again. This is the best thing ever!

Spotted in the stacks as I was shelving my stack of newly cataloged books. Love the headpiece and its appropriateness for the Argonautica.

#rarebooks #specialcollections #apollonios #earlyprinting

And it's got a funny little mystery with its first leaves too. It's a quarto, but the initial gathering is 5 leaves. I can't quite tell if there's a singleton in there or if there's an excised leaf. The title page is unsigned, but the next leaf is signed [paragraph]2. So that might mean... [2/4]

Finishing up cataloging this lovely 1676 book of Ecuadorian poetry and prose that contains accounts of hyperlocal fetivals with syncretic religious practices (Indegineous and Catholic). But what's enchanting my at the moment are the darling collections of typographic ornament! #rarebooks #typography

A couple of great owl decorations and some lovely initials in an otherwise pretty unremarkable edition 1901 edition of Bacon’s Essays. I love how well designed even mass market books could be at the turn of the last century. #rarebooks #owls #SCSUSpecialCollections #specialcollections

I feel you George, I really do. An illustration from an 1898 book I’m reclassing in Buley Library’s (@scsulibrary.bsky.social) Special Collections and Archives. #antiquarianreactionimages #SCSUSpecialCollections #rarebooks #booksky