Coloring books for adults all the rage, but apparently, they were popular as far back as the 18th Century. A 256-year-old coloring book has been found in the library of the Missouri Botanical ...

Color of a City— Dreiser Tells of Old Sam'l Clampitt's Junk-Yard, Etc. The Story. These 38 prose sketches of New York—the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery ...

This 300-Year-Old Book Was the World's First Comprehensive Color Guide "Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau," discovered and translated by historian Erik Kwakkel, was probably ...

The Poison Book Project examines antique books for heavy metal pigments — including mercury, lead and arsenic — commonly used in Victorian bookbinding.

A 256-year-old coloring book has been found in the library of the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. Its pages feature drawings of 60 plants and flowers, along with instructions for ...