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The Oldest Advertisements for Books (medievalbooks.nl)
31 points by benbreen on Dec 8, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I love this blog. Such a perfect example of someone sharing his knowledge freely like in the "good old days of the internet".


He has a fantastic eye for the interesting detail. Historical research is filled with fun things like this but for whatever reason, historians don't usually share them widely. Before his current blog he had this Tumblr which is also worth checking out:

http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com


Impressive amount of beautiful surprises here.

ps: I was just talking with someone last week about publicity, and what was the oldest form of non local, non hearsay publicity. This cannot come at a better time.




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