Barbara Basbanes Richter

Time to check in with the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) at the University of Texas at Austin and take a peek at what’s on display in the rotating Stories t
Fine press book culture in California owes much to H.
Next month, Boston’s Bromer Booksellers is unveiling a retrospective dedicated to master artist Barry Moser. On display will be 115 pieces: political art, portraiture, and prints and illustrations…
Literary forgers have plied their trade as long as there's been something worth copying, "creating" purely for financial reasons or simply being able to get away with it.
Each semester, the Houghton Library at Harvard University hosts a series of workshops on letterpress printing.
"Pure praises do not provide a comfortable existence; it is necessary to add something solid, and the best way to praise is to praise with cash-in-hand." (Molière,
Brexit may be in turmoil, but there is a bright spot to leaving the E.U: being able to print hyper-local money that's backed by the national government. 
On February 28, highlights from Lisa Unger Baskin's nearly 9,000-piece collection of rare books, ephemera, and other artifacts created and produced by women over the course of five hundred years we
Turn to any page of the recently published, two-volume, folio-size Catalog of the Cotsen Children's Library: The Nineteenth Century  -- say, page 24 of volume II -- and the bibliograp
Though the barometer may suggest otherwise, one of the telltale signs of spring in New York is the annual arrival of Rare Book Week, going on now through March 12.