Today in History for Aug. 2: In 1100, King William II of England was killed in a hunting accident.

In “Flashes of Brilliance,” Anika Burgess takes us back to the 19th century to showcase the artists and innovators who ...

Artists Marisa Adesman Is Casting Spells With Paint—and a 19th-Century Magic Book In her New York solo show, Adesman offers a peek behind the curtain to a world of pleasure and play.

After restoration, a 19th-century printing press from the printing house of Hristo G. Danov - the founder of Bulgarian book publishing - is back in action in Old Plovdiv. According to BNT, visitors to ...

The Hispanic Society Museum and Library's ultra-rare Black Book of Hours is the recipient of this year's TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund.

Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books with leather made from human skin. Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum just discovered a book bound with the skin of notorious killer ...

This book in particular was donated by a family with close ties to the surgeon who anatomized Corder’s body. Curators located the book when combing through the museum’s catalog.

But while most commercial fiction flies off the printing press today as a single volume, many 19th-century novels were published in three separate parts, Jacobs said.

The result — scherenschnitte, or scissors cutting in German — enlivens the pages of Ripple’s book, “The Raub Family Country Doctors and Their Medical Flora Remedies in the 19th Century.’’ ...

New book offers window into 19th-century island life Jonathan Bell, Assistant News Editor Created: Dec 06, 2024 07:58 AM (Updated: Dec 06, 2024 08:04 AM) ...

A remarkable unpublished manuscript from 19th-century Italy, in the author’s handwriting, that I recently acquired serves as a poignant testament to an often overlooked, unique and forgotten ...

This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion “Spectropia” demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead ...