I Love Awful Books! | Bite Sized Book History

My dirty little secret is out: I LOVE yucky books! Smashed bugs, gunk in the margins, doodles, binding damage... all of these undesirable-sounding parts of well-loved books can actually tell us a lot about how books were used and what they're made of. This is my love letter to the well-loved book!

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Further reading:
Cambridge butterfly: trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/rare-preserved-butterfly-discovered-nestled-in-a-copy-of-the-earliest-insect-book-published-in-england/
Project Dustbunny: https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.e...
Sediment of Reading: http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/proj...
Anne Boleyn's book: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ann...
Fine Books story on Newton's Opticks: https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/iss...
Patrick Olson Donatus fragment: https://www.olsonrarebooks.com/books/...
Garrett Scott's Vernaculopegy: https://www.bibliophagist.com/picture...

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