As long as humans employ courier services, from pigeons to state-maintained networks, artists harness these systems for their work. The earliest piece of mail art may be lost to history (some argue…
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In 1823, Thomas Jefferson recalled a pivotal moment in American history: “I consented; I drew it; but before I reported it to the committee, I communicated it separately to Dr. Franklin and Mr.
Sheila Markham has reached a new landmark in her ongoing project to interview book dealers and collectors with the publication of A Third Book of Booksellers, out now in a limited edition
Ten years ago, there were huge celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of the first issuing of the Magna Carta agreement.
Flannery O’Connor is best known as a master of Southern Gothic storytelling, but before writing classics like “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and Wise Blood, she wanted to be an artist.
In 1906, a young French woman named Clothilde Coulaux made a lushly illuminated manuscript with religious imagery and scenes of everyday life in German-occupied Alsace.
Book collector Nicholas Royle—whose trilogy on the subject will be complete when Finders, Keepers is published by Salt next spring—is not simply interested in the volumes he gathers. He’s also…
For centuries, evidence of a lost technology was tucked away in archives and libraries around the world.
"I am going to Winchester,” Jane Austen wrote to her friend Anne Sharp on May
