“Judging a Book by its Cover” is the latest exhibition from Manhattan’s Grolier Club, a private members club and society for book lovers in New York. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest ...

Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is a private club dedicated to the book arts. While candidates for membership must be nominated and meet certain criteria in order to join the “private bibliophile ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the city. By Sam Roberts An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not ...

Centaur display matrices, from ‘The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Type of Bruce Rogers’ (courtesy the Book Club of California) ‘The Century’ by Maurice de Guérin set in Centaur, from ‘The ...

“A sundial for sounding the hours,” from Athanasius Kircher’s Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Rome, 1646) (courtesy Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology) On Time: The Quest for Precision ...

This mind-bending exhibition of books showcases titles so rare you won’t find them anywhere else in the world. “Imaginary Books” is at The Grolier Club in New York through February 15. Courtesy of the ...

The trouble with preserving children’s books as artifacts from the past is that they are often shown so much love by the children who read them that they are no longer in mint condition. This winter, ...

“One of the things that this exhibition does very importantly is to remind us of the vast range of places Jews have lived and made their homes and learned from the local cultures,” David Kraemer said.

A couple of years ago, Egyptian archaeologists excavating a necropolis south of Cairo discovered a papyrus marked with ancient Greek. Analysis eventually showed it bore Euripides’s Ino and Polyidos, ...

This is a featured article from Pauline and Paul of the New York City Museum-a-thon, a couple transplanted to New York from the West Coast who have made it their goal to visit ALL 180 museums of New ...

Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, closed. Library (by appt. only for qualified researchers): Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun, closed. Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is America’s oldest and largest society for ...