So far this year I've read 3 extremely funny & uplifting books. All About Me! by Mel Brooks and the Life & Mind of Andy Kaufman. And one by the British comedian Rob Gotobed, whose humour I only discovered thanks to my dentist introducing me to his work. Best trip to the dentist ever! Thanks Stephen

The ABAA-fair has been postponed until April, but at Vialibri Showcase we are now open for business! Here's 1 our booth highlights: rare #firstedition of English translation of celebrated practical manual on #mining and metals by Lazarus Ercker, 1 of the foremost metallurgists of the 17th century.

2 online book fairs coming up: 1 by Vialibri and 1 by the @abaararebooks.bsky.social. Here's a first highlight from our virtual booth: Lambert van den Bosch' classic history of the Dutch "Rampjaar", including 8 double-page horror plates by Romeyn de Hooghe of atrocities perpetrated by the French.

Another highlight from our new catalogue on Almanacs, Miniature & Song Books: 1828 edition of complete works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace, 65-8 BCE), the second ever work to be printed in Didot's microscopic #Polyamatype, and one of the real miracles of #microscopic printing. #miniaturebooks

It was a dreamy moment, a refuge from noise and stress, a sanctuary of calmness and peace. And she was in absolutely no mood to hurry through it. Figurative II framed print -- stevehendersonart.com/featured/fig... #art #artsky #blueskyartshow #romantic #woman #beauty #painting #bedroom #flowers

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Crazy day deserves a crazy type video. Makes us smile .. youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY?...

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CONGRATS, EDIE. YOUR HAT GAME NEEDS WORK, THOUGH. 💙📚 #booksky

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Two tone as folk horror. Should be an album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...

The worst place to be stung by bees is at a nightclub because it just looks like you're doing some very cool dance moves. Oh sure, you win the dance competition, but at what cost!

I KNOW, I KNOW 💙📺

Morning.

Buzcocks are my favourite group who weren't the Beatles. Songs about the heart with melody and invention. Their albums are extraordinary.

as far as im concerned, every season is mating season

My wife loves dogs and has always wanted a big chocolate lab. So I bought her this.

Time to open something special in 2026! Get ready to continuously laugh out loud! From the absurd to the hilarious, this Best of Rob Gotobed’s comedy book delivers the wildest humour that’ll have readers of all ages giggling, snorting, and maybe even questioning their sanity. bit.ly/4aKC3WU

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‘We tend to see the people around us as having characters about which we might make judgments and have opinions, or from which we might instinctively shrink. Those characters are in part fictions of our own making.’ Colin Burrow on uncharacteristic behaviour. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘𝘋𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 matters because it mattered to Milton. You can ignore it and still enjoy his poetry, but if you become seriously interested in Milton your interest will sooner or later extend to his religious views.’ Tobias Gregory on Milton’s theology. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today's newsletter presents 12 recently described items, including this #masterpiece of 18th-century miniature book-illustration. To receive our newsletter, please fill in your details in the form you'll find at the footer of our website. There you'll also find more info on this classic #rarebook.

This week we'll be participating in #FirstsOnline 's Virtual Book Fair & here's a first highlight: a very rare Amsterdam edition, in a fine #binding, of the memoirs of Jacques Necker, the Genevan banker who served as finance minister for King Louis XVI in the years leading up to #FrenchRevolution.

Was this wonderfully illustrated (Ottoman-style) #binding, holding a 1648 edition of Lucius Annaeus Florus' "Epitome rerum Romanarum", really made in Venice in the 17th century, as stated in the 1911 sale catalogue of the great American collector Robert Hoe? Check our website for the full story...

A teaser for Pt 3 of my Freddie Mercury in Budapest substack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNQ...

They say that pregnant women emit a radiant "glow", which is why they make terrible snipers.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church (Dankmar Adler, 1899) is peak architecture. But give some love to its 1965 addition, at 4511 S. Vincennes, designed by Robert C. Taylor.

there he is... my beautiful boy,,,,

Here's a #book that's exactly 4 centuries old this year: the 2nd edition (with new and more extensive illustrations) of one of the most noted Italian books on #hunting. Eugenio Raimondi's "Delle caccie" contains 13 beautiful full-page engraved illustrations showing the hunt of all kinds of animals.

Coming up: large new catalogue with 110 #rarebooks and other items printed in the city of #Antwerpen. A first highlight: 1542 edition, printed by Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen] of Pliny's letters in an exceptionally well-preserved contemporary pigskin binding. More on our website.

Our #bookoftheday is extremely rare #firstedition (1839-40) of the author's dedication copy for Queen Anna Pavlovna of the Netherlands, of a novel advocating the emancipation of women: Joseph Dufeytte-Dilhan's "Les mémoires d'un ange, ou Les femmes vengées". Find out more on our website. #feminism

Episode 2 of "Nature in Crisis," the podcast I'm doing with @meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up. We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

The Slow Death of Democracy Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy? An event with David Runciman @ppfideas.bsky.social, Lyse Doucet (BBC), Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark. 11 March 2026 www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

‘Last August, Cooper said that “there may be people who are objecting to proscription who don’t know the full nature of this organisation.” The High Court judges however said that “the closed material does not affect our conclusion.”’ @daniellalock.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

‘Despite the conventional set-up, Cristina Rivera Garza isn’t interested in fulfilling the murder mystery contract. Satisfaction is antithetical to her aims. 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘦 is a book designed to withhold the pleasures of the genre.’ @chrispower.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

So many layers in Daisy Hay’s essay about the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Issue 48.03 is now online, featuring: Seamus Perry on pluralism and poetry James Wolcott on John Updike @jamesmeek.bsky.social on the Romanian right Claire Hall on Archimedes John Gallagher on early modern news @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the US Special Forces Read online at lrb.co.uk

‘Why don’t you go in?’ someone said, and this was where cheerful prospects were offered. And this helped too – that the room had a floor space of at least seven hundred square feet and was lit from the east. ‘For Those Who Have Been Charmed’, a story by Diane Williams. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’ Yiyun Li on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

These two hilarious Rob Gotobed books, ‘The Canyons Of Rob Gotobed's Overactive Mind’ and ‘I Feel Like A Carp On A Chopping Board!’, are now available to read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!! #KindleUnlimited #Free #Kindle bit.ly/4hA0B7W

Just been reliably informed that my copy of The Beatles Abbey Road album is a fake. Can’t believe I never noticed the mistake before.

Our book of the day is this graphically stunning 3-volume historical manuscript #atlas, made in France, dated 1851. It contains 23 graphically vibrant #maps, coloured in outline with subtly shaded washes in grey (for the coasts) & numerous bright colours (for political boundaries). More on website.

It's a joy to present our new catalogue: Printed and written in Antwerp in the 16th century: www.forumrarebooks.com/catalogues.html 100+ interesting rare books, manuscripts, maps and prints from the 16th century from the Belgian city of Antwerpen. Pdf on our website. #earlyprinting #bookhistory

Another #highlight from our upcoming catalogue "Printed and written in Antwerp in the 16th century": extraordinary copy of #firstedition of famous Moerentorf #Bible in vernacular Dutch language, printed in 1599, with vivid contemporary hand-colouring and in richly blind-tooled contemporary binding.

Here's a fun item from our new short list with 12 recently catalogued #rarebooks: complete set of "Le cuisinier moderne" (The Hague, 1742), the famous cookery book by Vincent La Chapelle, which strongly influenced the cuisine of the British aristocracy in the 18th century. #cookbooks

In our next short list we will present 12 newly described #rarebooks, incl. this third, enlarged Dutch edition of famous model book by Francois Perrier (1590-1650), depicting 100 of the most beautiful of Roman classical sculptures. Many not suitable for posting here, you'll find them on our website.

Our #bookoftheday is the #firstedition of Dutch translation of the journal of general Lafayette's 1824-1825 Farewell Tour of all 24 United States. Lafayette was the French officer in Washington's Continental Army and a commander the decisive Battle Of Yorktown (1781), which secured US independence.

‘Without Matthiessen’s enthusiasm and roping in of Plimpton Humes’s editorial efforts might not have come to much, but crediting the CIA with the Paris Review’s founding is an exaggeration.’ @xlo.bsky.social on Peter Matthiesen. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...