Welcome to the new home of the Bibliophile Adventures blog! All of the content from our original wordpress.org site has been moved over. I hope to be posting more regularly now that we have moved to our own server. Still…
A heads up about an intriguing exhibition coming to the British Library (11 November 2011 – 13 March 2012.) Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination is the British Library’s first major exhibition to bring together the Library’s Royal collection, a…
Having just returned from my own library tour of Europe, I found this article timely and spot on. By GERALDINE FABRIKANT in the New York Times. EUROPEAN cities are feet-on-the-pavement destinations, where many of us find ourselves trudging along familiar…
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is hosting an exhibition entitled Renaissance City Views from Above and Afar. About the exhibition: Between 1572 and 1617, Georg Braun, editor, and Franz Hogenberg, engraver, produced the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, a multi-volume collection of…
“Atlanta artist Brian Dettmer creates memorable works of art by slicing, whittling and tearing into books. Mark Strassmann reports on Dettmer’s vision for a vanishing form of art.” I guess the above is referring to books as the “vanishing form…
