Category: Rare Books

From mischievous bunnies to fearsome wolves, animal characters grace the pages of the majority of picture books beloved by young...

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), the English writer known to many for his celebrated fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of...

The Malleus Maleficarum, known in English as The Hammer of Witches, was first published in Germany in 1486 and became one of...

The Julian Edison Department of Special Collections recently acquired a copy of Hypnerotomachie, ov Discours du songe de Poliphile, printed in...

The Industrial Revolution created the mass production of books, out of which came the Arts and Crafts Movement and the...

The jeweled binding, also known as the treasure binding, is a form of bookbinding that emerged during the Middle Ages...

We’ve all heard that you can’t judge a book by its cover, but what about its pages? Today we will...

As we come to the end of Native American Heritage Month, we want to highlight some of the extensive volumes...

September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month, and we are celebrating by highlighting some of the materials in...

The Julian Edison Department of Special Collections has an extensive collection of children’s books, some of which are over a...

In 1949, a neurologist from Portugal named Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for developing the surgical procedure known as the leucotomy....

In the early 1880s, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson left a career in law to become a bookbinder. Cobden-Sanderson was a friend...