Explore Regency London through Pierce Egan’s lively tale of Tom, Jerry, and Bob Logic, featuring hand-colored illustrations, folding music, and a fine later binding.
Explore HPU’s first edition of Daniel Defoe’s vivid account of plague-stricken London, with a fine later binding and provenance from collector A. Edward Newton.
Discover Sir Walter Scott’s 1830 study of supernatural belief, preserved in a striking pictorial Kelliegram binding featuring witches gathered around a cauldron.
A look at HPU’s 1843 third edition of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with John Leech’s hand-colored illustrations and a handsome later red leather binding.
Students in ENG 1103 used science fiction paperbacks from Special Collections to explore how cover art, design, and material features shape genre expectations and deepen literary analysis.
Explore six early 20th-century decorated publishers’ bindings and discover how designers used color, typography, ornament, and imagery to interpret texts, attract readers, and shape the reading experience.
Discover HPU Libraries’ oldest book, a Paris edition of Manipulus curatorum printed around 1497, and explore its significance for medieval religion, early printing, bookbinding, provenance, and the history of the book.
Explore five centuries of anatomical illustration through HPU Libraries’ 1934 edition of Vesalius’s Icones Anatomicae and a modern Thieme atlas, revealing how art, printing, and medicine make the hidden body visible.