Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities

New acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities from the collections.

  • Hen fight!

    November 10, 2008

    An engraved plate by George Cruikshank from a compilation of issues of “London Oddities or the Theatrical Cabinet”, [London, Hodgson & Co., ca. 1822.]

  • Efficacious Grace

    November 6, 2008

    Johnathan Edwards, “Efficacious Grace,” manuscripts in a notebook made from several different scraps of paper and bound by hand; in the Jonathan Edwards...

  • By any other name

    November 3, 2008

    “Rose is a Rose is a Rose…” a wax seal for embossing envelopes , from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers , ...

  • Queer Zine Explosion!

    October 30, 2008

    Issues of queer zines, ca. 1990-2000 from a growing collection at Beinecke Library.

  • Copying for pleasure

    October 27, 2008

    Examples of “Xerox art” books made by a group of artists and writers in the 1970s and 1980s. A large collection was acquired by Beinecke Library in the summer...

  • The Dog Book Blog

    October 23, 2008

    or rather, the Dog-shaped papier-mâché bookshelf blog entry. A true gem of an item from the Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection, highlighted by expert cataloger...

  • TV killed the Cinema star

    October 20, 2008

    A run of issues of Les cahiers de la television , Paris, 1962-1963. With contributions from the likes of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: “Voir la peinture à la T. V...

  • The Comical Mélange

    October 16, 2008

    An anonymous book of humor, published in London in 1833 by A.U. Thiselton - with many illustrations similar to the work of Rodolphe Töpffer. Foreshadowings of...