Processing Capra Press
By Hal Parkinson Who creates a book? Is it the author, who writes the story that fills a book’s pages? ...
Lilly Library
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A Chinful of Slang
You Chirped a Chinful! Including Private Bill’s Dictionary of Service Men’s Chin Chatter [1943] is a bit of World War ... -
A Family Dictionary
Ed Finegan and I have just submitted the Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary to Cambridge University Press. If you’re a ... -
Websteriana
Any large collection of dictionaries will overflow with works by Noah Webster, but Madeline Kripke also had a collector’s eye ... -
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 3 of 3)
A continuation from Part 2 of the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Subject Files I spent probably several ... -
The Ostroh Bible: A Book Encrusted with History
By Becky Craft and Brandis Malone In Spring 2023, students in the History of the Book course (ILS-Z681) were tasked ... -
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 2 of 3)
A continuation from Part 1, in which we began the journey through each series within the Barbara Mertz collection. Correspondence ... -
Journey to the Center of the Mertz (Part 1 of 3)
The first step to transforming roughly 200 boxes of correspondence, typescripts, royalties, scrapbooks, photo albums, gin glasses, dioramas, typewriters, and ... -
Dig This Dictionary!
Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real ... -
It Wasn’t All Greek to Steve A. Demakapoulos
John Florio (1552–1625) was well-positioned to write an Italian–English dictionary. His father Michelangelo, an Italian Protestant (of all things), fled ...