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Compositor

@CompositorBham

Compositor is a database of 18th century printers' ornaments and decorative type

 Birmingham, England
compositor.bham.ac.uk
Joined May 2016
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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). blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023…
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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
Image from Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) 📖🔍 (@universalstc)
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ANOTHER LIE BY LYONS PRINTERS! @Fleuronweb to the rescue!
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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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CLEMT@CLEMT_bham2 Apr 2018
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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CLEMT@CLEMT_bham26 Feb 2018
#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
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#sketches of printers' ornaments from whaling related books in marvellous @Fleuronweb database for last pages of my smaller #Cetology books
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Examples woodcut decoration in some of our current #earlymodern #rarebooks #antiquarian #auctions #WoodcutWednesday thewisdompedlars.co.uk
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Half way through a full day of research using @Fleuronweb. What a terrific resource it is!
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Sweet! There’s a db of 18c printer’s ornaments called Fleuron, will be great for teaching 18c lit + bib @Fleuronweb bit.ly/2nMPTPm
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Congrats to @Hazel1552 for making the DH Awards 2016 shortlist for @Fleuronweb! There's still time to vote for it... dhawards.org/dhawards2016/vo…
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Tx to @Fleuronweb for opportunity to demo @BodleianBallads ImageMatch and associated things (see printing-machine.org/ for links) #bsecs

The Printing Machine

Personal academic website for book historian Giles Bergel. Bibliographer, digital humanist, print culture researcher.

printing-machine.org
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#bsecs So it appears that @Fleuronweb is research process made scaleable rather than just a database made for the sake of it. Which I like.
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Made my first printer identification through @Fleuronweb this afternoon! First of many I'm sure. What a great resource!
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Dick Whittington's cat makes an impression on the Moorish King. Woodcut from @Fleuronweb c.1795
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Dick Whittington wins the hand of Alice Fitzwarren, his former master's daughter. Woodcut c.1795 from @Fleuronweb
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For anyone writing about Georgian printers' ornaments for book production... xitter.cf/Hazel1552/status/78444…
Hazel Wilkinson (@Hazel1552) profile pictureHazel Wilkinson@Hazel15527 Oct 2016
Fleuron: A Database of 18th-Century Printers' Ornaments, now online at fleuron.lib.cam.ac.uk
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Beautiful woodcut of London c.1742 from the #Fleuron database @Hazel1552 @thegentleauthor @typeasimage
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