Selected by Adrienne Rusinko

Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in March 2024: Object 1: Pank-a-Squith (1909) — (E-000072) Published in 1909 for […]

Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in February 2024.

Beginning in January 2024, the Princeton Public Library and Special Collections at Princeton University Library launched a book club together for the first time. Called “All Access,” every six weeks, the club reads a book chosen by Princeton Public Library staff.

Selected by April C. Armstrong *14

Princeton is particularly rich in important copies of the Slave Ship Brooks, representations of which went viral at the end of the eighteenth century and helped in abolishing the trade in England. 

This little book is a list of the names of all the champion hunting dogs owned by a great English book collector, who also had a Gutenberg Bible, etc.

Once a month, five objects from across Special Collections’ vast holdings will be on display in the lobby of Firestone Library for anyone to come and see. Here are the objects featured in October 2023: Object 1: Inkwell: Self-portrait as a Sphinx by Sarah Bernhardt, […]

By Steve Ferguson This is the device of a bookseller, John Wight, who traded at the Sign of the Rose in St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, between 1549 and 1589.  He’s holding a book titled Scientia. This might be called a “canting” device (i.e., an emblematic […]

By Will Noel Sandwiched between Sinclair Hamilton (Class of 1906) and William H. Scheide ’36 in the list of chairs of the Friends of Princeton University Library is Robert H. Taylor ’30, who had an extraordinarily long tenure–25 years. More information about him, and digitized […]