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Reading by Touch: Scotland’s early tactile reading systems

What came before braille? Scotland played a key role in the early history of reading by touch, opening new possibilities for blind readers in the 19th century. Taylor Hare explores embossed pages, knotted strings & radical alphabets

https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/printing-and-publishing/reading-by-touch/

#Scottish #literature #Scotland #BookHistory #blind #19thcentury #braille #printhistory #printing #bookmaking

#AskFedi - one for the #history enthusiasts.

Those pamphlets from a few hundred years ago, which are like

"An
ANSWER
to the
XYZ.
Being an
ACCOUNT
of the
ſomething-or-other
EXPLAINING
why ſo-and-ſo
has it all wrong."

(I can't fully do the style justice without (a) already knowing them a bit better, and (b) having italics to play with in the formatting here! but I feel sure you'll know the things I mean :-) )

I am on a bit of a geeky sidetrack about the style and language of these. I would really like to find a stash of them where I can flip through like 100 examples of those title pages, and "get my eye in" for their vibe. Or failing that, at least a dozen.

Searching isn't doing it for me, because I'm finding mostly either explanations _about_ the making of them, or later examples which don't have the glorious miscellany of type styles.

Does such a collection exist online? Where should I be looking?

Or would my only hope be to physically visit a library? (which realistically I probably wouldn't get around to, as this is only a side enthusiasm, but maybe one day. I'm based in Nottingham, England.)

Thanks in advance for clues!

#pamphlets #PrintHistory

Martin Schongauer has done some griffonmaxxing ! The griffon of classical antiquity was half lion, half eagle. Schongauer’s griffon is a blend of eagle, rooster, and bull – and isn’t this griffon owning his look! 1/ #earlymodern #medieval #Renaissance #printhistory #arthistory #monsters

Animal cyborg sighting – from the Middle Ages, no less! Now at the Louvre in the Martin Schongauer exhibition, until July 20. 1/ #earlymodern #printhistory #arthistory #Renaissance #medieval

#printhistory friends: We have an elementary school class coming into @[email protected] as part of their unit on the American Revolution & I’m wondering if there’s something related to kids in the 18th century we could try to reproduce on the press? Ideas beyond the Declaration, &c.?

Jeudi et vendredi prochain, à Versailles, nous organisons avec Anne Rochebouet un colloque intitulé "Textes, livres et discours à l'épreuve de l'imprimé".

L'idée est de se demander ce que le nouveau média fait à l'organisation des savoirs et des discours médiévaux dans la deuxième moitié du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Les questions de mise en page, de mise en image, d'évolutions ou de continuités linguistiques et matérielles seront envisagées par les participants, issus de différentes disciplines (histoire, lettres, linguistique, histoire de l'art...). Ping @teol03 🙂

L'entrée est libre, mais l'inscription est obligatoire !

https://www.dypac.uvsq.fr/colloque-textes-livres-et-discours-a-lepreuve-de-limprime

#histodon #histodons #printhistory

Fascinating:
What survives of early Hungarian print?
Out of ~6000 known works before 1700, how many have vanished? This post explores the metadata—and the limits—of our bibliographical knowledge.
@kiru
#PrintHistory #HungarianHistory #BookHistory #Bibliography #DigitalHumanities
https://translationpatterns.substack.com/p/early-hungarian-print-what-survives

Bid to save one of Scotland's last print shops. In Blairgowrie, Perthshire. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62962d955lo #Scotland #Perthshire #Blairgowrie #PrintHistory #Printing

And that's it! Sent off the new training set and hopefully improve the issues I have encountered!
I will also use this model for the 1728 print. It's a different printing press, but overall, the two prints are very much alike, and so is the #Fraktur type they use. #Transkribus #EthicaComplementoria #HTR #EarlyModern #PrintHistory

This phenomenon is highlighted because the #HTR model I've been training to recognize the text had too few characters in cursive in the training set. So they get misread, and I have to correct them, thus becoming hyperaware of these differences in the typesetting.
When I'm done, I will reconstruct the sheets and printing order to look at the distribution of spelling and other errors and typographical conventions. Exciting! #BookHistory #PrintHistory #AnalyticBibliography

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

In the '70s and '80s, if you wanted to set type for yourself, you had to resort to presstype, transfer lettering, Letraset – there were a bunch of names and a bunch of brands, of which Letraset was the highest quality. I think this stuff cost about $8 a sheet back then, when I was making about $2 an hour, so it was a real indulgence, and once I chose a sheet, it got used for any project I needed type for.

#typography #typesetting #printing #printhistory #PrintingProduction #Letraset #presstype

Improbably, I’m about to hit 11,000 followers on Mastodon—that’s nearly 40% of what I had on Twitter and 4,000% better conversation! I had a week-end 10% off sale of my ebooks and letterpress-printed books and other material when I hit 10,000.

I’m doing a flash 10% sale again for the next 24 hours! Go to https://glog.glennf.com/the-store and use code MASTELEVEN at checkout! #letterpress #type #typography #printing #capitalletters #printhistory

GLOBAL HISTORIES OF THE BOOK: EAST ASIA AND EUROPE
instructor: Devin Fitzgerald

#bookhistory #globalbookhistory #codex #printhistory #historyofpaper #historyofinformation #comparativehistory #inclusivepedagogy

A little print history. John Peters, former RAF pilot, was a designer at Cambridge University Press post war. He designed several fonts inc. Castella for Monotype. He founded The Vine Press in Hilton which handset and printed short-run books on a Cope and Sherwin press. Here's a link to my MA dissertation on his work and life https://hellolovely.design/johnpeters

#print #cambridge #fonts #graphicdesign #typography #printhistory #bookdesign #illustration

#introduction
I am a #history lecturer at #openuniversity
I work on #18c #ireland #politics #elections #barracks #PrintHistory and also interested in #histodons #heritage #museums #archives #news #dh #art