“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miniature editions of works by William Shakespeare or influenced by the literary giant are on view in the Yale Center for British Art’s newest exhibition. “ ‘The Poet of Them All’: William Shakespeare ...

They're not the kind of books you'd take out of the library. You won't find them in a local bookstore, either. In fact, some of them are almost impossible to find at all, explains CBS Sunday Morning ...

Every once in a while, a book comes across my desk that I cannot stop looking at, and such is the case with “Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures” by Anne C. Bromer and Julian I. Edison ...

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A miniature, unpublished manuscript written by English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë at age 13 will be offered for sale for US$1.25 million later this month at the New York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