Walking through the John Carter Brown Library’s massive wooden doors, visitors may overlook the tiny, unassuming room that sits just inside the entrance. Taking a step in yields the scent of old books ...

Volumes accompanied by supplemental DVD-ROMs containing additional illustrations, with descriptions, for the texts. V.1. Historical repair, recycling, and recovering phenomena in the Islamic bindings ...

“Nature of the Book,” a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in D.C., dives into an offbeat history of books, focusing on long-ago artisans’ use of natural items such as ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of the global evolution of books themselves. In the five multiple-choice ...

HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 5251950 AD : AN EXHIBITION HELD AT THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART NOVEMBER 12 1957 TO JANUARY 12 1958 ORGANIZED BY THE WALTERS ART GALLERY AND PRESENTED IN COOPERATION WITH THE ...