Antiques & Collectables: Books, Manuscripts, Ephemera & Printed Matter

15 creative projects that will inspire you to preserve memories and indulge your sentimental, crafty side! Memory-collector Martina shares techniq...

'Panini Legends, by the leading authority on the stickers, Greg Lansdowne, charts the changing appearances of football legends.' – Daily Mail'I hop...

Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender...

The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manusc...

The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manusc...

In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted boo...

An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an essential introdu...

Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that ...

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 also buried nearby Herculaneum. Over time the location of the small town was forgott...

As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious. What ...

This edited volume provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at the printed material often regarded as disposable by its contemporaries and, unt...

In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted boo...

This sumptuous volume presents more than 80 full-colour reproductions of some of the most highly prized French manuscript illuminations in the worl...

Postcards were the Instagrams of the early twentieth century. On one day in September 1906, 200,000 postcards were mailed from Coney Island. In 191...

Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that ...

The catalogues of the Paris Salons at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century provide a unique archive of illustrations of the decorative arts at ...

Although the connection between the invention of printing and the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century has long been a scholarly commonp...

This volume celebrates the work of William O’Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessi...

From cave paintings to computers, this overview of the history of books and communication is written for the layperson and student. It provides cle...

“The covetous foraging for old and rare books,” is how Matthews defines “booking.” It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding th...

For centuries philologists, linguists, and historians have read medieval books to study the language of a given work or to establish an accurate an...

When the magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty years since its first pub...

This is the first comprehensive study of the Renaissance commonplace-book. Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europ...

This book reappraises the work of early-seventeenth-century collectors of English Renaissance poetry in manuscript. The verse miscellanies, or poet...

This is the first Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology ever to be published. Dealing with the subject of documentation - which affects ever...

The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution of the book, the types of information communicated...

The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recogni...

Picturing Kingship presents the first comprehensive art-historical study of the personal prayerbook of King Louis IX. The book approaches the St. L...