HONE, Joseph. The Book Forger. London: Chatto & Windus, 2024. 8vo, pp. [10], 321, [5]. First edition, first impression. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, mustard yellow endpapers. Graphic dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine jacket.

This KC line is the kind of nonsense you come up with when you’ve read too much Gibbon and not enough Hobbes!.

The curse of the type facsimile strikes again! This is NOT a C17th century book. Anyone who knows anything about typefaces will tell you that’s a late C18th Caslon. I would wager this was printed c. 1820 not 1678.

RT @EngelsbergIdeas: Conflicting ideas of liberty | David Wootton.

With my response!

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Only in Cambridge would a bookshop devote this much shelf space to J.H. Prynne.

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Walking home through the park: sun shining, children climbing trees, the thwack of leather against willow. A good time of year.

Hurrah! To be on a list with @henryhemming and Kate Summerscale! Wow.

RT @Lit_Review: Out now! Literary Review's May 2025 issue, featuring. @NshShulman on Princess Diana .@sophieolive on Gertrude Stein .Costic….

Cambridge people! I’m going to be giving a talk on TJ Wise, detritus, stolen leaves, and made-up books on Thursday at 5pm. Do come along!

This made me chuckle. One for @alexlarman.

Good lord. This collation has become deranged. What do you mean MN?!! (Not to mention ten alphabets.)

Here’s my diary for this month’s @Lit_Review. Mostly concerning the wonderful Julia Donaldson.

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Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

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