Harvard University's Houghton Library is home to a large number of rare books and manuscripts, including early modern manuscripts and the papers of Samuel Johnson, Emily Dickinson, and James Joyce. As the library's homepage notes, these collections, collectively, "touch upon almost every aspect of the human record, particularly the history and culture of Europe and North America, and include special concentrations in the history of printing and of theater." The Houghton Library has also created this fascinating Tumblr page as a way to highlight a diverse selection of remarkable items in its collection. Regularly updated, this site will appeal to anyone interested in print culture, art, or ephemera. In the past month, the Houghton Library Tumblr has featured an illustrated page from the original 1868 publication of Little Women; a close-up photograph of a gorgeous pierced silver bookbinding from the late eighteenth century; and a detailed illustrated frontispiece that accompanied the 1759 publication, A New universal history of arts and sciences, shewing their origin, progress, theory, use and practice, and exhibiting the invention, structure, improvement, and uses, of the most considerable instruments, engines, and machines, with their nature power, and operation.
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