print culture
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Report: 25th Anniversary Fellowships
I recently defended my dissertation titled “Reading Between the Lines: Mapping El Orinoco Ilustrado” at the University of Arkansas. El Orinoco Ilustrado (1741), written by the Jesuit Joseph Gumilla, has…
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Samuel V. Lemley, ed. The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type.
This collection presents a fascinating case for examining a specific library’s collections to see how that library presents a version of a rare book.
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Reports: Part I
We are thrilled to share with you a number of short reports on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Read below to learn more…
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Jane McLeod. Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottière Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers.
A microhistory of 31 members of a French provincial printing/bookselling family, this book examines the Labottières’ rise to prominence, the works they printed and imported, their business and familial connections…
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John A. Dussinger. Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer: Recycling Texts for the Book Market.
Dussinger’s book carefully curates and edits selections of Samuel Richardson’s writing from two important early periodicals.
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Life’s Mini Pleasures
In early 2024, I came across a miniature replica of a bookshelf situated in a recycled Altoids tin on my Instagram “explore” page. It was impossible to pass this over.…
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Jeff Jarvis. The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet.
In 2011, journalist and digital media expert Jeff Jarvis published Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (New York: Simon & Schuster),…
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Reid Byers. The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom. Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgway (editors). Country House Collections: Their Lives and Afterlives.
In 1883, Jules Richard wrote that once a bibliophile has a collection of more than a thousand volumes, the room where they are kept quickly becomes a shrine – ‘devient…