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Faridah Laffan explains how the illustrations of William Buckland's Kirkdale Cave discoveries were transformed from brushstrokes to engraved plates.

Centuries before digital cameras, how did early Fellows of the Royal Society approach the tricky problem of reproducing text and images? Katherine Marshall investigates.

Anne McLaughlin tells the story behind our 1495 copy of 'De proprietatibus rerum' by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, the oldest printed item in the Royal Society Library in English.

What's the earliest book in the Royal Society Library? Rupert Baker finds that the answer to this frequent question may not be quite so straightforward...

Louisiane Ferlier marvels at the paper tools - including quadrants, dials and volvelles - hidden within some of the oldest astronomy books in the Royal Society Library.

Daniel Belteki reports on a decorative, but otherwise unsuccessful, interlude in the printing of a Royal Society journal.

Louisiane Ferlier has co-edited a new volume on the history of books: 'Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832'.

As our copy of Robert Hooke's 'Micrographia' goes off for conservation, we look at the printing history behind the book's iconic images.

Keith Moore describes a fascinating research project which analyses wormholes in woodcuts made on printing blocks.