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

Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great ...

Many large or academic libraries have staff specifically trained to care for their collections, but public and other small libraries don’t have tha...

The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeProviding a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on ninet...

Marie Tremaine's bibliography was originally published by University of Toronto press in 1952 and has been described as 'the cornerstone of bibliog...

Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of...

The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeProviding a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on ninet...

A copublication of the Grolier Club and Battledore, this bibliographical study, published in 2014, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of M...

Modern Western calligraphy has seldom been recognized as an art form. Correcting this oversight, Jerry Kelly presents major examples of calligraphi...

Royal Armouries Manuscript I.33 is the oldest-known manual of swordsmanship in the Western canon. The sequence here shows Keith Ducklin and Mike Br...

During the early twentieth century, John Hassall was one of Britain's best-known and most high-profile artists. Working across a variety of discip...

As the influence of popular culture increases, the collection of paper ephemera has emerged as a hobby. From bus tickets and postcards to shopping ...

It is widely, and wrongly, assumed that books are never so valuable as when they lie unopened before us, waiting to be read. Good books bear mul...

In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literatu...

An account of what papyrology is and what the papyrologist does. _

In Praise of Scribes is a major contribution to the field of manuscript studies in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This profusely ill...

The Derveni papyrus is the oldest literary papyrus ever found, and one of the very few from Greece itself, which makes it one of the most interesti...

BL Contains substantial discussions of Donne, Shakespeare, Rochester, and Swift Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers ...

In The Codex, published in 1954, C.H. Roberts studied the process by which in the early centuries of our era the roll as the vehicle for literature...