Elvira Bates Friendship Album One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with aspects of history I never would have sought out ... March 21, 2024
Disney and the Blue Ribbon Books By Kamden Spies, Lilly Library desk attendant and graduate student in the Department of Information & Library Science By 1932, ... January 23, 2024
A Most Expensive Textbook I was surprised that I wrote so much about prices in my recent post about the unique copy of Louis-Lucien ... December 29, 2023
A Book Unique in Several Dimensions Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors ... December 20, 2023
Bawdy Songs and Sentimental Bookplates We hoard our slang in dictionaries, but lexicographers, like the dragons of lore, steal their gems from others. In the ... December 13, 2023
Just Say the Word If you supply schools with dictionaries and hope that every home with children will have a children’s dictionary handy, you ... October 19, 2023
What Is Gavelkind? Few of us, not even lexicographers, recall William Somner (1606–1669), but he figures importantly in the history of English dictionaries ... October 12, 2023
A Map for the Body By Travis Whaley. This summer, the Lilly Library acquired a rare copy of Bernhard Schmid’s Einer neuen kunstlichen Tabulatur auff ... October 6, 2023
Calling out censorship Madeline Kripke favored profanity and obscenity and collected many works published during the Great Censorship, when the Comstock Act of ... October 5, 2023
Exhibition Highlights: Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and the Afterlives of Unfreedom By Pedro Machado and Olimpia Rosenthal Please be advised: This blog post, along with the exhibition Global Slaveries, Fugitivity, and ... September 20, 2023