“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A miniature book made by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë, to go on sale next month for $1.25 million, contains what may be her last unknown poems. By Jennifer Schuessler The miniature books created ...

In 1976, the title of World’s Smallest Book (printed with moveable metal type) went to an A-Z printing of the text type Gill Titling, with each letter, inked in 3-point-type, appearing on a single ...

NEW HAVEN >> We’re assembled in Yale’s British Art Center on a June morning with publicists, press, museum principals and — it turns out — a few craftspeople whose skill and art are distilled into ...

There is a profound power in the miniature. The smaller something becomes, the more appealing we tend to find it – an extrapolation of the phenomenon ethologist Konrad Lorenz named ‘baby schema’, in ...