In the Library

A carpet page from a ninth-century North African Qur'an
A Quest for Illumination
The Art of Three Faiths: A Torah, a Bible and a Qur’an is not merely an exhibition but represents the culmination of a thi
The Chawton House Library’s inviting reading room.
Besides Austen
This past summer, the first woman writer appeared on an English banknote.
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), original photographic print, 1918.
Saved by the Cover
While cataloguing and mounting six exhibitions of American publishers’ bindings, I noticed a few exceptional cover designs by important designers on novels by Amelia E.