The University opened an exhibit in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry novel, “Annie Allen.” ...

The Rare Book Room’s twentieth anniversary provided us with the perfect opportunity ... Beck and featured highlights from a very special gift of documents and manuscripts generously donated to the law ...

A literary gem in Rhode Island is filled with rare manuscripts and historical treasures, ranging from writings of presidents ...

And it took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to reunite the lost books — some printed decades before Shakespeare penned his first play ...

Remember that scene from Disney's animated classic "The Beauty and the Beast," where Belle gasps in awe at the towering shelves and endless rows of books in the Beast's magnificent library? That was ...

A rare and valuable late 17th-century manuscript, confirmed to be that of composer/singer William Turner (1651-1740), is currently on display in the Western Illinois University Libraries' Music ...

The manuscript arrived on campus Oct. 20 and is now at home in WMU's Waldo Library, says Dr. Susan Steuer, head of the Special Collections and Rare Book Department. It will be exhibited only ...

Rare manuscripts dating back as early as the 9th Century have been shared online for the first time. More than 200 precious documents have been digitised by the National Library of Scotland.

The arsenic-laden pages of "Shadows from the Walls of Death" should not be touched without gloves. Shadows from the Walls of Death, printed in 1874 and measuring about 22 by 30 inches, is a noteworthy ...

National Library of Scotland The rare Heege manuscript contains the earliest recorded use of the term 'red herring' in English, (bottom line three and four) "Heege gives us the rarest glimpse of a ...