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Book Arts & Rare Book Collections →
The University of Washington is sitting on a treasure trove of unusual, delicate, and special books. In its Book Arts & Rare Book Collections you can find works of poetry bound with pearl buttons and garter belts, cube books to be unfolded, and any number of tomes on typography, papermaking, calligraphy, book design, and illustration.
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John Lithgow show prompts surge in demand for out-of-print anthology →
Does your library have a copy of Teller of Tales in its rare book collection?
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How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples →
Of the original 100 copies, only four remain. Most libraries, concerned about poisoning their patrons, destroyed their volumes. Two of the surviving books remain in Michigan—one at MSU and the other at the University of Michigan.
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National Bat Appreciation Day! April 17, 2017
Bats and more bats!! Can’t get enough bats on Bat Appreciation Day. These images are from Brehm’s Life of Animals: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the use of Schools, published in Chicago by A. N. Marquis and Company in 1895.
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The Monk Who Saves Manuscripts From ISIS →
As ISIS militants have destroyed countless artifacts, Stewart has attempted to counter them by working with Christian and Muslim communities in hotspots such as Iraq and Syria. He has trained local teams to photograph centuries-old books with the help of the non-profit organization he directs, the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). Based out of Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, HMML is dedicated to preserving endangered manuscripts on microfilm and in digital format. So far, it has managed to photograph more than 140,000 complete manuscripts, for a total of more than 50,000,000 handwritten pages,
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That awkward moment when you discover that the father of pragmatism may have “borrowed” a book from your library without permission!
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Lazarus Project Brings Damaged Texts Back to Life →
The Vercelli Book, the oldest manuscript of Old English in existence, imaged by the Lazarus Project at Archivio Capitolare in Vercelli, Italy
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This might be one of the most amazing things I have found in a book in a long time. I came across this awesome colored-in paper doll being used as a book mark in the 1872 edition of Stevenson Macadam’s The Chemistry of Common Things. This lovely lass was cut out of another book and colored by the student who was using this book as a textbook. I couldn’t help but imagine how much fun it would be to see her peeking out the top of the book.
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To celebrate National Garden Month we offer this matrix of flower images from The Garden; or, Familiar Instructions for the Laying Out and Management of a Flower Garden (1831).
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vintagefairytaleillustrations:
Illustration from “The Little Mermaid” in “Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen” illustrated by Helen Stratton. Published around 1908.
From: Archive.org.
Happy Birthday, Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805)
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Happy Pi(e) Day!
You don’t have to be a “young mayde” or housewife to try out these recipes from the Social Alliance Cookbook (1899) of the Congregational Parish (Unitarian) of Arlington. Pie is for all!
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And Still More Mend and Make Do
At some point in its history, the wooden board from this Latin Bible from 1501 suffered a break. Staples to the rescue! (Date of this repair unknown.)
Library and literary miscellany from your pals at Library Journal.