Doesn't appear to be very heavy on Middle English (when, oh, when will my beloved Harley 2251 and 2255 return??) but still-- this is really heartening: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
Following the cyber-attack on the British Library last year, staff have been working behind the scenes to restore access to the Library’s digitised manuscripts. The Library has now made an initial bat...
Autumnal colours in abundance at the York National Book Fair 🍂🍁 we can’t wait to see many of you at Stand 30 today and tomorrow!
Tomorrow we'll be making our annual pilgrimage north for the 2024 York National Book Fair, we are pleased to present a curated list of 30 items to mark the occasion. We hope you enjoy reading it, and we look forward to seeing many of you at Stand 30! http://bit.ly/Q-York2024
Coming with us to the York Book Fair (Stand 30), 13–14 September. We hope to see many of you there! Free tickets can be found here: https://buff.ly/3hfTfZw
The York Book Fair at York Racecourse is held over two days and presents over 220 of this country's leading booksellers
🦋 Opening this early eighteenth-century manuscript account book reveals a small folded fragment of seventeenth-century English wallpaper preserved in the binding. Visible elements here include a thistle and a rather charming butterfly, with dotted branch borders.
This curious dream vision was dictated by Martha Jacob to her daughter Hepzibah mere weeks before her death in 1817, and appears in a commonplace book full of acrostics, hymns, and original verse by Martha. Coming with us to the York Book Fair (Stand 30), 13–14 September.
'It descended a little way and then began to emit on all sides such beauties as I cannot describe – it was like chains of gold which gradually let down to the earth things of indescribable shapes and colors beyond imagination beautiful …’
‘I could not have been more than 4 years old … I stood gazing in admiration when suddenly the sky opened when something of a globular form came through much the size of the sun but far brighter …'
This highly entertaining eighteenth-century imaginary voyage is coming with us to the York Book Fair next week: find us at Stand 30, 13–14 September