The bicycle had a profound cultural impact at the turn of the twentieth century. Traces of the golden age of cycling can be found today in the colorful body of printed literature…

Books and literary characters have always been popular subjects for children's games. Delightful characters from favorite stories, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, juvenile fiction…

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 contains many items from the Lilly Library's collection on Islamic Book Arts.

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 bindings.

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 Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.