I only really set this handle up because I was planning to visit the U.S.A. I’m more usually here bsky.app/profile/ceeb... 🙏👊🖤

Now online @bibsoc.bsky.social a gallop through my research on the incunabula & early printed books of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): rare books collector, savant, scholar, slave owner. I emphasise attention to the social circumstances routinely elided in #bookhistory youtu.be/JdXfbqTvsKI?...

The illustrated letter heads of H. & B.J. Stevens, American book dealers and bibliographers based in London in the mid to late 19th-century is gloriously camp!

The relaunch of ESTC: bibsoc.org.uk/relaunch-of-...

Our Flag Means Books! ☠️📚🏴‍☠️ Wrote a little thing about books and pirates, popular culture, love, and nerding out in the library... Ahoy, @david-jenkins.bsky.social! It's for @globalmarhist.bsky.social: globalmaritimehistory.com/our-flag-mea... #ofmd #OurFlagMeansBooks

German Beer Day.

And how is it you come about having all these books ..? This made me look up who is the patron saint of cleaners. #rarebooks

Rolling 🖤 A 17th-century emblem book from the Palatinate still making people dream of finer shores