Rare books

Pettyfoggers and Vipers

by Bean an Phoist on November 16, 2012 · 2 comments

in Collections,Guest Bloggers,Manuscripts,Prints & Drawings,Rare books,Research

by Sean Smith, Researcher at our “Palace to Procrastination” Lawyers and the legal profession, where would we be without them? If it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t have Dickens’ Bleak House and the interminable case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce. We wouldn’t have the on-going, lengthy and costly tribunals and we wouldn’t have the colourful carnival [...]

Tagged as: Attorneys, Bar Club, Barristers, Benchers, Four Courts, Grand Day, Henrietta Street, Inns of Court, Inns Quay, Irish Bar, James Gandon, John Philpot Curran, King's Inns, Lawyers, Open University, Richard Edgeworth, Sean Smith, Society of the King's Inns, Townsend Street

{ 2 comments }

Do not try this at home

by Bean an Phoist on February 23, 2012 · 0 comments

in Collections,Exhibitions,Printed books,Rare books

by Aoife O Connor, co-curator of Particles of the Past exhibition In deciding what to put into our Discover: Particles of the Past exhibition for Dublin City of Science 2012, Robert Boyle was top of the list. We have an excellent collection of his published works and he’s a well known and important figure in [...]

Tagged as: Alcohol, Aoife O Connor, Discover, Dropsy, Dublin City of Science 2012, Exhibition, Fever, Fruit, Hypochondriac, Insects, Labour, Medicine, Millipedes, Myrrh, Particles of the Past, Receipts, Recipes, Robert Boyle, Science, Scientist, Spices, Sugar, Tobacco, Ulcers, Wine, Woodlice

{ 0 comments }

Always judge a book by its cover

by Bean an Phoist on December 22, 2011 · 12 comments

in Conservation,Rare books

by Elodie Leveque & Louise O’Connor, Conservation Conservators love knowing how a book was put together, and recently, we had the opportunity to examine a very interesting item. Despite being in good condition, the book needed some minor conservation treatment. But first, by closely examining the binding and the inner structure normally hidden from our [...]

Tagged as: 1669, Anton Bruodinus, Binding, Case, Conservation, Conservators, Core, Cover flaps, Cross-over beading, Elodie Leveque, Fr. Anthony Broidin, Head, Headbands, Hygroscopic, Initial letter, Irish College, Limp vellum, Linen thread, Louise O'Connor, Martyrdom, Octavo, Pastedown, Plant-fibre Cords, Prague, Propugnaculum Catholicæ Veritatis, Tail, Textblock, Vellum