- Sarah Werner and Matthew Kirschenbaum have written a piece for this year's edition of Book History: "Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline."
- The AAS has acquired two photos of 19th-century printers posing with their tools.
- Nick Basbanes' piece on Rare Book School for the NEH's magazine, Humanities, is now online.
- Sotheby's has been sued by a consignor for an attribution: the seller argues that if the auction house had attributed the painting to Caravaggio rather than to a follower, the auction price would have been far higher.
- UVA Today takes a look at the Book Traces project.
- Over at the Provenance Online Project, a few nifty GIF animations from old books.
- Eric Kwakkel found a fantastic example of a scribe putting some defects in his parchment to good use. And he writes about how, in certain cases, the destruction of medieval books actually served to lead to their survival.
- I'm not a big fan of the trend of historical institutions "updating their brands" by changing their names, but there's a report on the phenomenon in the NYTimes.
- The Fine Books Blog collects the links to Terry Belanger's recaps of the Case Western special collections symposium.
- Douglas Greenberg's essay on Michael Kammen in the LARB is highly recommended.
Reviews
- Edward J. Larson's The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789; review by David Waldstreicher in the NYTimes.
- Francois Furstenberg's When the United States Spoke French; review by Hank H. Cox in the WaPo.
- Harold Holzer's Lincoln and the Power of the Press; review by David S. Reynolds in the NYTimes.
- Andrew McConnell Stott's The Poet and the Vampyre; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.
- Armand Marie Leroi's The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science; review by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein in the NYTimes.
