The photographs in Alex Vadukul's New York Times story about Neale Albert, a 75-year-old collector of miniature books, are as squee-inducing as anything you might see on Cute Overload—except, of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her first miniature book was about an inch and a half tall. It was a prayer book bound in ivory with a velveteen spine and satin endpapers. Caroline Brandt puts the year of publication at around 1850.

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 ...

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 ...