When you stand inside somebody’s library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now, but who they’ve been,” writes Lev Grossman in Unpacking My Library: Writers an
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Picture Pablo Picasso’s “Weeping Woman,” a Cubist oil on canvas painted in 1937 that depicts the shattered face of a crying woman.
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
At the time of his death a century ago, the Canadian physician Sir William Osler (1849–1919) was considered to be the most famous doctor in the world.
Artist Ralston Crawford dabbled in photography before World War II, using his 1938 shots of dock workers in Florida and Louisiana as source material for his painting Ships and Sailors.
The finest collection of rare and early printed books from colonial India is to be found not at the British Library or even within a rare book institution in India, but in a large flat in London, t
The remarkable story of Sangorski & Sutcliffe started in 1901, when two young, talented bookbinders were fired by their employer.
When one thinks of Hollywood, the phrase “the written word” doesn’t always immediately leap to mind.
In 1896, Rudyard Kipling was living in Brattleboro, Vermont, with his American-born wife.
If you think letterpress printing has been relegated exclusively to the domain of typophiles and aesthetes, welcome to the world of Amos P.
