From the Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres, published in 1766. That was a good year for quaint pointy hands. (Though of course they weren’t quaint back then.)
Because clearly something had to be done about that spate of unofficial histories.
Top 10 magical grimoires
Professor of social history at the University of Herefordshire Owen Davies selects his top 10 magical grimoires. Davies has “written extensively about the history of magic, witchcraft and ghosts”.
“Computers. How they were invented — how they work — what they can do, both now and in an exciting future.”
I wonder if K. N. Dodd Ph.D predicted that computers in his “exciting future” would mainly be used for looking at people in various stages of undress, grammatically-challenged cats, and grammatically-challenged cats with clothes on.
Knew it was a great second hand bookshop when I saw the boxes of books on the stairs and smelt the body odour and passive aggression
Digitised copies of Charles Sturt’s sketches and diary
Some beautiful sketches made by Charles Sturt during his exploration of the Murray, with notes.
Open Library
The Open Library is another way to access the mind-bogglingly huge archive of full text digitised books at the Internet Archive; very neat site design and great options for refining searches.
Pirates and printers
A brief account of book smuggling in the British Isles in the late eighteenth century.