With its colorful paintings and 81/2-by-111/2-inch size, “The Christmas Story” has the look of a children’s picture book. Indeed, it’s a book to share with children. But this retelling of the first ...

The folk-decorated manuscripts and color drawings known collectively as fraktur were produced nearly everywhere German immigrants settled in America during the 18th and early 19th centuries. This new ...

‘Gothic’ or ‘Black Letter’ script was used by monastic scribes in many parts of Europe from the 12th century. Early printer-typefounders, including Gutenberg and Caxton, imitated handwritten Black ...