“I’ve never seen anything like this before and I’ve been working here for 26 years,” said a senior director at the Montreal Jewish Public Library. MONTREAL (JTA) — In her 96 years on earth, Lilly Toth ...

Tommy Wixon of Pascagoula does not know exactly where his penchant for collecting ends and his love of history and genealogy begins, but he is certain he has a gene that draws him toward a world of ...

If you had young eyes, a good magnifying glass and a lifetime, you might be able to plow through most of the magnificent miniature book collection at the University of Iowa Library. Lifetime being the ...

How does one define a book? Most commonly, a book (or “codex”) is defined as a written or printed work that consists of pages sewn or glued together along one side that has some kind of cover, or a ...

The University of Iowa library contains more than 4,000 miniature books, all measuring fewer than three inches in either height, width, or both. Three inches is not a lot for a book, but three inches ...

A miniature, unpublished manuscript written by English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë at age 13 will be offered for sale for US$1.25 million later this month at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Midcoast Maine Book Arts group invites the public to visit the Rockland ...

There is a profound power in the miniature. The smaller something becomes, the more appealing we tend to find it – an extrapolation of the phenomenon ethologist Konrad Lorenz named ‘baby schema’, in ...

The Miniature Book Society (founded in 1983, with a world-wide membership) has held its annual gatherings in such places as Seattle, Wash., New Orleans, La., and Dublin, Ireland. During the ...