In the Library
The sale of a major collection can become an almost mythic event in the book world.
I am sitting in the beautiful, air-conditioned space of the gallery at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, looking at
Collectors familiar with The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library (RBML) are most likely to know about one of our longstanding collection strengths, such as the Charvat…
This summer, the Morgan Library & Museum opens the exhibition Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection.
The Blossom Expedition, the first scientific collecting expedition of the fledgling Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH), sent sixteen men to explore the islands of the South Atlantic from 19
In "Mark Twain and the Holy Land," the New-York Historical Society celebrates the author’s first novel
The Art of Three Faiths: A Torah, a Bible and a Qur’an is not merely an exhibition but represents the culmination of a thi
While cataloguing and mounting six exhibitions of American publishers’ bindings, I noticed a few exceptional cover designs by important designers on novels by Amelia E.
