The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...

In the March/April issue, I devoted this space to Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books, published by Yale University Press and edited by Leah Price, a scholar at Harvard. This column ...

The Library Company notes that the bindings “appeared on American books only briefly — around 1850-55 — a time of increasingly elaborate book cover decoration.” The use of inlaid shell on books wasn’t ...

SAMUEL BUTLER (242 pp.)—Philip Henderson—Indiana University ($3.75). “A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born. It is then he insists on setting up a ...

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

BURTON OF ARABIA—Seton Dearden— McBride ($3). To Victorians for 50 years the career of six-foot, black-eyed, hot-headed Sir Richard Francis Burton seemed more fabulous than anything discovered, by ...

Remember that old saying about not knowing a person until you’ve walked a mile in her shoes? Author Ruth Goodman has done that and then some. She’s walked in the shoes, corsets, dresses and nightgowns ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Book Travelers: A Victorian Story – Collector’s Edition As head librarian takes a strange turn when novelist Charlotte Brontë herself magically appears to ...