Compositor is a database of 18th century printers' ornaments and decorative type
Birmingham, England
Joined May 2016
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📢 News 📢 Fleuron has been relaunched as Compositor, now with image and keyword search functions (both in beta!). New site at compositor.bham.ac.uk
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"Mapping the Dining Culture at Holland House, 1798–1806." Introducing the Dined Project, a database of the dinner book kept at Holland House, Kensington, between 1799 and 1806. (Add MS 51950).
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Compositor’s visual search engine is temporarily down while we work to fix a problem. Apologies to anyone trying to use it today, we’ll have it up and running soon.
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We’re delighted to reopen the #CfP for our 2021 conference, Gender & the Book Trades, with proposals now due on 31 Jan.
This will be our first fully virtual USTC conference, and registration will be open free of charge.
For more see ustc.ac.uk/conference
#USTC21 #HerBook
New Blog Post! How to use Compositor's Visual Search Engine: fleuronweb.wordpress.com/202…
The Fleuron website was down over the holidays. Apologies to those who've been trying to use it. Pleased to say we're back online now.
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Dominique Varry from #ENSSIB, Lyon, giving a fascinating talk on reconstructing the geography of the print community of the 18th century, to the Book & Print Initiative. Convents were secret warehouses for counterfeit & prohibited books!
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Advertisement from 'The south-Sea kidnapper, address'd in a letter to the court of directors of the South-Sea Company,…’ (1730), p. 1 via the excellent @Fleuronweb
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN for ‘Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work’, a one-day symposium @unibirmingham on 27 June 2018 to coincide with landmark new edition of the writings of Alexander Pope @OxUniPress. See bit.ly/2H2qb47 @BSECS @beccbham @RECSOxford
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#CallforPapers now open for ‘Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work’, a one-day symposium @unibirmingham on 27 June 2018 to coincide with landmark new edition of the writings of Alexander Pope @OxUniPress. See blog.bham.ac.uk/apope18/ -- DEADLINE 1 APRIL. @BSECS @beccbham @RECSOxford
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Imaging wood blocks: manipulable 3-D digital representations of three 19th-c. wood engravings, including a "Bewick" and one for Dickens. sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/m… @DickensMuseum @GilesBergel @Fleuronweb @cmcfadden @UMBookworm
