Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse
📖 7 ½ Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse
📖 7 ½ Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead
Excellently researched and put together! Wellesley makes these fascinating treasures accessible for the modern reader. I enjoyed it, but it‘s not the sort of book where when I‘m done reading I feel inspired to go buy a copy for all my friends.
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Book of Hours by John Harthan
📖 The Arthurian Book of Days: The Greatest Legend in the World Retold Throughout the Year by Caitlin & John Matthews
#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans
Front and center in the window of a bookstore near our hotel in Florence. So glad I read it (the English version!) before visiting.
Vespasian became a bookmaker in Florence, Italy at a tender age and grew up to become the greatest bookseller and bookmaker at just the moment scribes and illuminators were being replaced by the printing press, a technology Vespasian refused to accept. He could find just about any book that existed in the known world for a discriminating buyer, or he could hire the best scribes and illuminators to transcribe (& translate) if need be for kings & ⬇️
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If only all warfare was something like this.
Technology replacing manual labor (Vespasiano, the bookmaker, and his scribes and illuminators)
My first job was typesetting the town newspaper in about 1984 (Pflugerville‘s little paper for those littens who live there now) and putting the newspaper together with the columns of printed photographic paper, scissors, a light table, and wax. I was replaced by computers. Probably why I love paper crafts so much nowadays
Can you imagine the excitement? Forty plus new titles printed in that year thanks to the new Gutenberg printing press. 🎉🎊 📚