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Posted by: Marianna Stell
Different personalities study best in different kinds of environments. The author of De Disciplina Scholarium, an early handbook for educators, advises about the optimal habits for different kinds of students, and who should reconsider their professional aspirations in education. He also writes under someone else's name.
Posted in: Education History, Manuscript and Letterpress (Hand Press)
Posted by: Mark Manivong
Guy Davenport was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and professor. This blog post provides a short biography and some examples of his work found in his collection.
Posted in: 20th Century, Appalachia, Publishing
Posted by: Amanda Zimmerman
Written by American aviator Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) but compiled and arranged by her husband after her fatal flight, the copy of "Last Flight" in the National Woman's Party Library in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division has a special provenance linking Earhart to the women's suffrage movement.
Posted in: 20th Century, American History, Seasonal, Women in Book History
Posted by: Marianna Stell
Did the earliest printers know what print was? Book historian Anna Dlabacova, former fellow in the W. Kluge Center and senior university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, offers some observations about what a 15th-century book from the Netherlands can teach us about culture and innovation.
Posted in: 15th Century, Low Countries, Manuscript and Letterpress (Hand Press), Provenance