Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which was preserved and cataloged upon his death in 1882. But many other items were lost, ...

For the very first time, the entire contents of the eclectic personal library of naturalist Charles Darwin has been published online, and a massive 9,300 entries come with links to the works, making ...

An etching of Darwin's study, commissioned a week after he died. Axel H. Haig / Darwin Online After nearly two decades of sleuthing and meticulous archival research, academics this week marked the ...

Sofia Ståhl has been collecting fashion magazines since she was a teenager; her collection now numbers well over 1,000 issues.

As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates. A way of establishing ownership, the little pasted pieces of paper pressed on inside covers evolved into miniature works ...

In The Expression of the Emotions in Men and Animals, Charles Darwin noted his disappointment in artists, writing: “I had hoped to derive much aid from the great masters in painting and sculpture, who ...