Grace Touzel

PhD (Book History) candidate at @IES_London | @NHM_Library metadata librarian | Blankbooks are my thing. @blankbookbinding & @[email protected]

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

Nice to find a wider audience for the brilliance of #blankbooks ! Thanks for having me 😀

[CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @CILIPRareBooks]

You know it’s a friendly conference when the paper begins with a round of applause for the speaker on submitting their dissertation! Congratulations to @grace_touzel of @IES_London and thanks for showing us some “really cool stuff”. #rbscg2024

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

What a great chance to talk about @NHM_Library and @NHM_London collections for @drewyhart, @Trichocolea, Lauren Burleson & myself!

[Brycchan Carey @Brycchan]

Thanks to @BatGirlSteph78 Steph Holt for chairing a fabulous panel at #BSECS2024 exploring collectors and their collections at the Natural History Museum - @NHM_London. Four stimulating, thought-provoking papers on the museum’s eighteenth-century roots.

[Edward Gillin @edward_gillin]

A copper-plate session inside Durer’s house in Nuremberg! Absurdly beautiful work, and feels quite intense watching this process in his studio

#durer #art #renaissance #germany #hare #history #craft #thursday

[Dr Rose Teanby @RoseTeanby]

Today is the 224th birthday of pioneering photographer Anna Atkins.

Great to see her cyanotypes on display at A New Power exhibition @bodleianlibs with many other fascinating early photographic treasures. A must visit when in Oxford.

https://t.co/v4jYCQGnqw

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

Birmingham (PA) surveyor George Hannum (d.1854): a man with a plan. This floppy folio of 435x280x10mm is awkward, and my interest in surveying is minimal. But it's a blankbook, and my, aren’t the pictures pretty? (@TheHuntingtonLibrary mssHM 83602) #GraphicArts #blankbookbinding

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

This 1635 #blankbookbinding is plain; the satin gowns and pearl-studded waistcoats of 14yo Lady Jane Cavendish were not. As Lady Cheyne, her plate and jewels weren’t too bad either. (@TheHuntington MS EL 11143) #blankbooks #17thcentury #socialhistory

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

Trumpeters, birdcage painters, singing women, “more than remembered” and “some thing forgott”. Like Charles Cheyne's 1669 budget, we’ve all been there. (@TheHuntington EL11145) #Blankbooks #ledgers #AccountBooks #17thCentury #bbtd #vellum #London

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

Today's #bbtd (blankbook of the day) is the Countess of Bridgewater’s Meditations […], a 1620s combo of gold tooling, gauffered edges, & clasps. Lovely. #ForeEdgeFriday #BlankbookBinding #HuntingtonLibrary (RB 297343)

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

This week I begin 4 months of examining the as-yet-un-researched #blankbooks of @TheHuntington, thanks to the @ahrcpress International Placement Scheme (IPS). Excited doesn't to cover it! #research #phd #AHRC #blankbookbinding #bookhistory

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

@Trichocolea @isacharmant A watermark-shaped rabbit hole to go down: https://t.co/79CH1DXslj. DM me some good pics of the #bookbinding, particularly damaged bits! #bookhistory

[Mark Carine @mark_carine]

A bit of a surprise in the #SloaneHerbarium @NHM_Botany today as I continue with work to inventory the collection. I have never seen a folio like this before. A work of art... but difficult to count the number of specimens. And who is it?

[Dr Beulah Garner @thiswordistaken]

#Museum30 #Storytelling Here’s the best story I’ve publicly told. But Evelyn herself wrote 16 books on natural history and her adventures in the SW Pacific. I do recommend you seek them out! She collected > 9000 specimens for the #NHM many new to science https://t.co/MV8xKlNEvV

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

In 1753 Boston (MA), £6 would get you an Imperial ledger and 7-quire Demy journal or two barrels of pork. I know which I'd rather touch, 270 years on. #ColonialLife #18thCentury #BlankBookBinding @hlslibrary #stationery #bookhistory

[Dr Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM]

It’s lovely being able to cite colleagues when writing especially when they’re @grace_touzel and it’s about Maria Sibylla Merian 🦋🐛🕷🪰

The @NHM_London has a copy of her groundbreaking Insects of Surinam and it’s phenomenal

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

Given my PT @NHM_Library / PT PhD (Book history) status, I see so much potential to explore science collections from a humanities perspective. Not for me (see: PhD), but do give it a shot. We'd love to have you! #bookhistory #socialhistory #museumjobs

[Sandra Knapp @SandyKnapp]

Interested in a role leading research at the nexus of culture and natural history collections at one the greatest places to work ever? Then check out this new post @NHM_Science for Research Leader in Collections & Culture - come join us, it will be fun! https://t.co/gIKMw16rVz

[STCV. Bibliography of the Hand Press Book @STCVbe]

Green fingers & black ink unite in this edition of ‘Historia de las yeruas, y plantas’. It's a history of herbs and plants by the Greek physician & botanist Dioscorides (c.40-90), added to by the German physician Leonhart Fuchs (1501-66), one of the founders of modern botany /1

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

The insides are important and all, but oh that binding! One of my absolutes faves from the Entomology Library. #bookbinding #bookhistory

[Andrea Hart @drewyhart]

@flygirlNHM @RoyEntSoc I raise you though Walter #Rothschild ‘s copy preserved @NHM_Library with its beautiful #ornate tooled binding and hand-coloured plates that were printed on #vellum #rarebooks

[Julie Gardham @GardhamJulie]

Enjoying reading this @hannaballoo - making me appraise the #parchment in our #medievalmanuscripts with fresh eyes. Take MS Hunter 85 (12th cent Bede from Durham) - beautifully produced yet on (literally) scabby skin. It’s got everything - 1/5 🧵

[Andrea Hart @drewyhart]

I will never tire of seeing the #Endeavour copper plates. This #Urtica ferox #etched to perfection by Gerald Sibelius (d.1785) who engraved a total of 195 plates for Joseph #Banks. The #specimen was collected at Totaranui, #NZ in Jan/Feb 1770. #shiny #printing #nettles

[Grace Touzel @grace_touzel]

All I meant to do was #catalogue Gerard Blasius' Observata Anatomica (Amst., 1674). Beside it was this copy of his Zootomie (Amst., 1676) & I'm hooked. Any French-speaking #earlymodern bibliophiles looking to procrastinate? #manuscriptMonday #bookbinding #bookhistory @NHM_Library