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Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8, 000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.) and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night. Both genres flourished from the middle to the close of the 19th century in America ...

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WELCOME to the University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project - Early Printed Books in Oxford Libraries outside the Bodleian. The project began in June 1995 with funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This funding came to an end in September 1997 and the project is now solely reliant on the goodwill of the University and Colleges. The first phase of the project aimed to ...

Laurens Janszoon Koster and the invention of the printing press.

The use of Braille by the blind is universal today but it was a long bitter struggle to make it so. Dozens of different codes have been used and this site gives you their history.

The University of South Carolina prides itself on its reputation as one of the foremost institutions in the United States for the study of Scottish literature. The Thomas Cooper Library is fortunate to have one of the foremost collections of Scottish literature anywhere outside of Scotland. Many of its valuable holdings are part of the G. Ross Roy Collection of Scottish Literature and the Rodger ...

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