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Madeline Kripke’s collection includes many rare books, some of them classically rare — old books of status for which collectors compete at auction — and some of the ephemera made…
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Bawdy Songs and Sentimental Bookplates
We hoard our slang in dictionaries, but lexicographers, like the dragons of lore, steal their gems from others. In the nineteenth-century, people interested in such uncut words… -
The remarkable mind of magician Ricky Jay
The Lilly Library invites ne’er-do-wells, magicians, historians, and all who are curious to explore the life, research, and remarkable mind of scholar, actor, and magician Ricky Jay (1946-2018). -
Just Say the Word
If you supply schools with dictionaries and hope that every home with children will have a children’s dictionary handy, you must convince the children in question to use those… -
What Is Gavelkind?
Few of us, not even lexicographers, recall William Somner (1606–1669), but he figures importantly in the history of English dictionaries...