Category: Rare Books

WashU Libraries’ recent acquisition of a first British edition of Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave, Written by Himself...

Since humans first began drawing, they have drawn genitals. Throughout history, what defines literature and imagery as pornographic, explicit, or...

Illustrator W.A. Dwiggins, when tasked with illustrating a version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1930,...

Medieval manuscripts are handwritten documents dating from roughly 500 to 1500 CE and were primarily written on parchment, also called...

Poetry is a celebration of language and sound. Originating as an oral tradition, poems have moved audiences with their rhyme,...

While Margaret Wise Brown may not be a household name, her work graces the bookshelves of most children’s libraries, including...

Since the advent of children’s literature as a genre, there has been a mutually enriching relationship between music and 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...