Rare Books with Allie Alvis

Well, as week’s guest says, you’ve heard of #SciComm (Science Communication), now get ready for #BibComm (Bibliographic Communication)!

Allie Alvis is the mastermind behind Book Historia. They currently work as a rare book cataloger at rare books dealer Type Punch Matrix, having worked at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Special Collections and the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture. She has multiple degrees in the history of the book and digital preservation from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. You can say they know a thing or two about rare books.

I loved chatting with Allie about books! We talk digital preservation, book detectives, licking books, charlatan linguists, old book vs old manuscript smell, poisonous books, kissing manuscripts, why rare books matter, and so, so much more.

Learn More!

Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar https://www.bookseminars.com 

Douglas Cockerell & Sons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Cockerell

Hunterian Psalter https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/psalter/psalterindex.html

Illuminated Manuscripts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript

John Ruskin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

Napoleon wallpaper https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/was-napoleon-poisoned

Poison book project http://wiki.winterthur.org/wiki/Poison_Book_Project

Poisonous books: analyses of four sixteenth and seventeenth century book bindings covered with arsenic rich green paint  https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-019-0334-2

Type Punch Matrix https://www.typepunchmatrix.com

Vellum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum

Virginia Rare Book School https://rarebookschool.org

Find Allie

https://bookhistoria.com

https://www.instagram.com/book_historia/

https://book-historia.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/book_historia

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtNISxDL3_3VuLVk6sFinJg

Allie’s favorite nonprofits

The National Center for Transgender Equality

The Center for Reproductive Rights

The Voting Rights Alliance

Nonprofits supporting Ukraine and surrounding countries:

Člověk v tísni, ops https://www.peopleinneed.net 

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies https://www.ifrc.org 

International Fund for Animal Welfare https://www.ifaw.org/eu 

Mercy Corps https://www.mercycorps.org

Nova Ukraine https://novaukraine.org

Polish Center for International Aid https://pcpm.org.pl/en

World Central Kitchen https://wck.org

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