Thoughts.
Minutes at the Royal Society as evidence of publication
The Royal Society documented their own publication activities if you know how to look
Abridgments of the Transactions at the Royal Society
The abridgments presented by Fellows to the Society have exceptional evidential value
Sources of the Philosophical Transactions at US-icu
The Transactions as a emblem of cooperation and sharing
More volumes of the Transactions from the Calvary bookshop
The Calvary bookshop sent a first batch of Transactions and then a second
Circulating copies of the Transactions from the Calvary bookshop
The Calvary bookshop’s stock continued to accrue history as it was used
What is that proofreading mark at US-icu?
The pages spread out show how this object was used and an odd mark
The the Calvary bookshop’s copy of the Transactions
The simple reason for a nineteenth-century German binding to be in Chicago
Two kinds of correction at US-icu
Distinguishing corrector’s proofs from reader’s corrections in the Transactions
The accessions at US-icu in 1892
The accession logbook for Lowthorp’s abridgment uncovers a number of mysteries all at once
Volumes of abridgments of the Transactions at US-icu
Making sense of a binding by looking at several volumes
Guide numbers on the plates of Lowthorp’s abridgment
Guide letters on an illustrated plate explain the history of the engraving
Lowthorp’s abridgment at US-icu
Examining the features of a particular copy of the abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions at the University of Chicago Library Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
Commonplacing as banking
Seventeenth century antiquarians engaged in commonplacing following accounting principles.
ESTC records as evidence
Reading thousands of ESTC records to answer questions about the history of printing.
Printing evidence at the Royal Society
Describing and interpreting printing evidence at the Royal Society, among it abridgments and orders.
Indigenous peoples contributions to early natural history
A talk from MLA 2022, I try to understand a bibliographical methodology that enables us to recover the contributions of indigenous people to the Philosophical Transactions
Proper to be bound up therewith
A talk from SHARP on especially suggestive binding instructions.
Editing for submerged voices
Using archival and printed evidence to recover submerged voices within our historical record.
Basic bibliographical observation
I think of bibliography as primarily a method, rather than an aim.
Visualizing paper evidence
When we look at books through digital screens, we can sometimes see more with the careful use of visualizations.
