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Dr Saskia Limbach
@saskia_limbach
Historian @EMobooktrade, working on early modern print & digital humanities | Formerly @UnivofStandrews, then @uni_mainz, now @LaStatale
Jan 22, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
What’s so fascinating about #bookhistory, you ask?

You have to think like a detective! And sometimes you are rewarded with a great find.

A 🧵about nice findings thanks to

-binding waste
-the @britishlibrary's collection
& a rare book catalogue from the early 20c

#incunabula Survival is a tricky issue with publications printed some 500 years ago.

The smaller the books & broadsheets are, the trickier it gets. Mandates, like this one, are often lost completely or only survive in fragments.

This unique fragment was recently on offer in the ...