The British Library in London is home to 14 million books, on shelves that stretch over 600km. Extraordinary vessels ...

The medieval era was the heyday of illuminated manuscripts. In the 14th and 15th centuries, there was a flowering of ...

The Victorians were masters of illustrated books, especially for children. Thanks to an emerging middle class readers...

The paperback book democratized reading in the 20th century, and printing directly onto the covers became a way of se...