Rauner Special Collections Library

Denis Diderot's Enyclopédie, ou dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers , a mammoth undertaking that was launched ...

“This is the very first I ever had published …” reads Robert Frost’s words penned atop this newspaper. On November 8, 1894, The Independent ...

We have blogged before about Nicolas Jenson's obsession with the perfect page and his devotion to an austere typography, so we don'...

In June of 1819, a young man named Levi Spaulding embarked on a trip to South Asia that would ultimately lead him to the island country of...

This week, we welcomed to Special Collections a visiting delegation of Rotarians from the United Kingdom. First editions of works by Auste...

Some title pages are just irresistible--you know from the start of this pamphlet that nothing is likely to be as it seems. The title reads: ...

We just picked up a beautiful early edition of the Romant de la Rose (Lyon, 1503). It is the perfect complement to our early 14th-century m...