But one book that was quite popular from the 15th to 17th centuries ... this copy was rebound in leather in the 19th century.

Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text ...

Before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the middle of the 15th century, books had to be written by hand. Producing multiple versions of the same book meant a human scribe had to ...

Showcasing over 200 full colour reproductions from the RIBA Collections, one of the world’s great architectural archives, the book is a window into the soul of architectural drawing from the 15th ...