- The Echoes from the Vault blog is beginning a series on Victorian cloth bindings.
- Ever wondered about the differences between "uncut," "unopened," and "untrimmed"? Erin Blake's got you covered at The Collation.
- The fall Book History Seminar at Yale, "Inevitabilities of the Book," is coming up on 9–10 September. Looks like a great lineup.
- Jane Raisch writes for the JHIBlog on "The Hellenism of Early Print."
- A manuscript account by Granville Sharp of an important 1781 slave ship massacre has been identified in the British Library.
- The New Haven Register reports on the impending reopening of the Beinecke Library.
- The William Blake Gallery will open in October in San Francisco.
- The Bookhunter on Safari posts about publisher W.J. Adams, "the almost wholly forgotten man behind the story of Bradshaw's Railway Guides."
- Phillip Lopate writes for the American Scholar about the process and pain of selling his papers to Yale.
- From John Schulman, "An Antiquarian's Guide to the Election."
- Charlotte Howsam's dissertation on medieval book fastenings is now available via medievalists.net.
- Lauren Young writes about the "library wars of the ancient world" for Atlas Obscura.
- In the New Yorker's "Daily Shouts," feature, Janet Manley highlights "Rare Books for sale, excellent condition."
- Penguin Classics is publishing a collection of ancient Egyptian writings in English for the first time.
- Keith Houston has a short feature for the BBC, "The mysterious ancient origins of the book."
Reviews
- John Dixon's The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden; review by Christopher Minty at The Junto.
- Forrest Leo's The Gentleman; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.
- Emma Smith's Shakespeare's First Folio; review by Jonathan Rose in the WSJ.
