This is a collaborative post by Brooke Palmieri and Daryl Green and can be found cross-posted on both of their blogs (8vo and Echoes from… Read More »Bloggers of the World Unite: Rare Book Bloggers and the Links They Build
This week’s posts are both focused on the historical collections of St. Andrews, look for the new bindings post on Friday! Many of the books… Read More »A Library from libraries
Recently catalogued TypBL.B96EH is a volume of 11 tracts on gardening and animal husbandry dated 1578-1599. Many of these tracts include some very beautiful and… Read More »Need help with your summer gardening or planning a home-brew?
TypBE.C81LM & r17 DA300.J64 – two late 17th century Scottish bindings This week’s fantastic binding is a double feature: one item that has been in our… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 3
Echoes from the Vault is stretching its social media legs! We can now be found on Facebook and Twitter, through the University Library’s pages. Follow… Read More »Echoes is now on Facebook and Twitter!
Bib BS2085.C27– An early 17th century dos-à-dos embroidered New Testament and Psalter This week’s fantastic binding comes from the Bible collection, and has been in… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 2
Finding marginalia and other inscriptions in our early collections is so common that we often take it for granted. However, sometimes something really spectacular pops… Read More »A contemporary cure for the plague
Having been inspired by a recent conference in Oxford (9 June 2011) entitled “The place of bindings in book history and bibliography: resources and research”… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 1
Bound-with volumes, or analytical volumes, are often the bane of a cataloguer’s existence and are sometimes the last items to come off of a shelf… Read More »Edinburgensia: A collection of over 60 17th-19th century items in one volume
The anonymous “Cloud of witnesses” (St Andrews item TypBE.D14XX) came up recently while working through the Edinburgh section of the Typographical Collection. This is the… Read More »Rare edition of “A cloud of witnesses” with eerie frontispiece
Hello from St Andrews! This is our first post on our new blog, Echoes from the Vault, and we are very excited to see where… Read More »Hello World!
