The Perfect Crime: The Murchison Murders
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2023
Arthur Upfield is one Australia's most underrated writers. His literary contributions often remain overshadowed by the brilliance of his...
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The Book That Became Famous Before it Was Published
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2022
Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days is one of those books where the story behind is more interesting than the book itself. It’s not tha...
A 16th Century Math Book With Pop-Up Models
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2020
Euclid’s Elements , first published in 300 BC, was one of the most important and influential textbooks ever written in the history of scie...
Medieval Book Curses
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2019
In the days before the printing press, book-making was a very laborious process. Each and every book had to made by hand, starting with the ...
The Editor of Encyclopædia Britannica Once Wrote a Guidebook to Edinburg’s Prostitutes
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 13, 2019
In the late 18th century, tourists seeking carnal pleasure in Scotland’s capital city Edinburgh had a handy guidebook to start with. It det...
The Wonderful Art of Missing Pet Posters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2019
“Have you scene [sic] my CAT ?”, pleaded a crude hand-made poster. Underneath it was a sketch of the missing cat, apparently drawn by a chi...
The Other Anne Franks: 10 Holocaust Diaries You Haven’t Read
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 29, 2019
Anne Frank wasn’t the only teenager who lost her childhood to war. Thousands of children and teenagers across Europe found their freedoms c...
Harris’s List: The 18th Century Guide Book to London’s Prostitutes
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2019
For nearly four decades, from 1757 to 1795, an anonymous publisher in Covent Garden printed and published a small pocketbook-sized annual di...
Jap Herron: A Novel Mark Twain Wrote After His Death
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2019
Mark twain died in 1910. Seven years later he wrote his last novel, Jap Herron —so claims St. Louis journalist and author Emily Grant Hutch...
The World’s Oldest Printed Book
Kaushik Patowary
May 17, 2019
The Diamond Sutra is an ancient Buddhist sermon that generation of Buddhists have memorized and chanted since at least the fifth century. T...
Fore-edge Painting: Hidden Artworks on The Edges of Books
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2018
The following video created by an archivist at Cornell University’s Library, New York, shows a 1925 copy of Rudyard Kipling's "Kim...
The Art of Mediaeval Book Repairing
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2017
In the early Middle Ages, books were made from animal hides known as parchment, rather than from paper. Preparing the parchment was a delica...
Medieval ‘dos-Ã -dos’ Book Bindings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2017
Back in mediaeval times, when people didn’t have Kindles to carry a thousand books, some book binders bound two separate books together in a...
Hay-on-Wye: The Town of Books
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2014
Hay-on-Wye is a small market town and community on the banks of the river Wye in Powys, Wales, adjacent to the English border. Often describ...
Historian Discovers 800 Year Old Doodles in Old Books
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 3, 2014
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. Historian Erik Kwakkel discovered this simple truth wh...
Birds of America: The World's Most Expensive Book
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2010
A copy of John James Audubon's “Birds of America” was sold at an auction in London last week for £7.3 million ($11.5 million), and thus ...
Original Illustrations of Charlotte's Web
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 29, 2010
The original illustrations of the classic children's book Charlotte's Web was seen by no one, until now. The book's illustrator ...
