Stories
- In pictures
The beautiful language of bookplates
Don’t judge a book only by its cover. Take a look inside, where decorative bookplates reveal stories that cross continents and centuries.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- Article
Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
- Book extract
The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
The book of beauty culture, 1914.
- Digital Images
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The book of Beauty Culture, inside cover and
- Books
The new bibliopolis : French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914 / Willa Z. Silverman.
Silverman, Willa Z., 1959-Date: [2008], ©2008- Ephemera
The new beauty-culture : an absolutely new way of beautifying the complexion... Pond's Extract Soap / Armour & Company.
Date: 1906- Books
Media and the rhetoric of body perfection : cosmetic surgery, weight loss and beauty in popular culture / by Deborah Harris-Moore.
Harris-Moore, Deborah.Date: [2014]