Our Exhibitions

This exhibition is an adaptation of a Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art exhibit displayed in Spring 2009. Although it is not a Lilly Library exhibition, it

An online exhibition of "vanishing" fore-edge paintings, which were first popularized in the late 18th century, often along the edges of books with fine binding

An online exhibition featuring many of the pamphlets, books, and newspapers published by Daniel Defoe, the prolific English writer best known for his novel, The

An online exhibition of Victorian holiday cards at the Lilly Library.

The British bookbindings featured in this online exhibition were commissioned in 1972 from twenty-three leading artists and craftspeople in Great Britain to sho

An online exhibition based on the 2000 Lilly Library Sherlock Holmes exhibition, featuring books and manuscripts relating to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary

An exhibition focusing on medical books in the Lilly Library collection from the 17th century, the time of William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation o

The exhibition Off the Pedestal: Images of Women in Victorian Broadsides, Ephemera, & "Fast" Literature, highlights illustrations from the Lilly's London Lowlif