In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist didn't mention how many books filled its rooms, but John O. Ward of the ...
It was a wonderful story. America s first printing press, used to publish the Freeman s Oath in 1639, was, centuries later, rescued from an old barn in Windsor. The famous Bay Psalm Book, known as the ...