The Autobiography of William Wells Brown
WashU Libraries’ recent acquisition of a first British edition of Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave, Written by Himself...
Category: Rare Books
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Studying the Salacious
Since humans first began drawing, they have drawn genitals. Throughout history, what defines literature and imagery as pornographic, explicit, or... -
Ornamenting Poe: Illustrations of The Raven
Illustrator W.A. Dwiggins, when tasked with illustrating a version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1930,... -
Early Modern Pragmatism: Medieval Manuscripts as Binding Material
Medieval manuscripts are handwritten documents dating from roughly 500 to 1500 CE and were primarily written on parchment, also called... -
Illustrated Poetry in the Henrietta Hochschild Collection of Children’s Books
Poetry is a celebration of language and sound. Originating as an oral tradition, poems have moved audiences with their rhyme,... -
Margaret Wise Brown’s Celebration of the Seasons
While Margaret Wise Brown may not be a household name, her work graces the bookshelves of most children’s libraries, including... -
Read the Beat: Music in Children’s Literature
Since the advent of children’s literature as a genre, there has been a mutually enriching relationship between music and books... -
Animal Tales in the Henrietta Hochschild Collection
From mischievous bunnies to fearsome wolves, animal characters grace the pages of the majority of picture books beloved by young... -
The Medieval Mind of Tolkien
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: A 15th Century Treatise on Witchcraft
The Malleus Maleficarum, known in English as The Hammer of Witches, was first published in Germany in 1486 and became one of... -
The Libraries Acquire a Rare Book of the French and Italian Renaissance
The Julian Edison Department of Special Collections recently acquired a copy of Hypnerotomachie, ov Discours du songe de Poliphile, printed in... -
Women Who Painted Books
The Industrial Revolution created the mass production of books, out of which came the Arts and Crafts Movement and the...