Barbara Basbanes Richter

Who can forget the searing images of Notre-Dame burning on April 15 of this year?
On August 9 at 4pm, Harvard’s Houghton Library will close as part of a yearlong renovation project that will increase accessi
Brooklyn-based Honey & Wax booksellers announced earlier this week that Rebecca Romney is leaving the shop to open a rare book venture in Washington D.C.
In ancient Rome, correcting errors chiseled into stone was no small undertaking, and, as far as modern historians can tell, slip-ups were unusual.
Victor Hugo was exiled from France in 1851 after unsuccessfully blocking Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’etat, which left him bumping around Europe for a few years until finding sanctua
The Raab Collection of Ardmore, PA, is offering a treasure trove of historical documents relating to the founding of the United States.
Author-illustrator Maira Kalman’s bibliography is an impressive one.
Wait, another book on Paris? Mais oui, mes amis.
On June 12, New York’s Lion Heart Autographs, Inc. will offer at auction the prison diary kept by a British Royal Air Force Officer imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II.
After the 2013 publication of Nick Basbanes’ On Paper, book artist