François-Pierre Goy stumbled across the treasure while examining a pile of anonymous manuscripts ahead of his retirement.

LONDON — It’s billed as the world’s largest library of film-related books, comprising some 3,000 titles. Given that so many of them deal with American films and that Westerns constitute the single ...

1623 collection of plays – one of only 230 believed to exist – lay undisturbed in library at St-Omer for 200 years A rare and valuable William Shakespeare first folio, which was the first complete ...

The manuscript given to France's national library Thursday begins simply, yet seductively: "The story of Jacques Casanova ... written by himself." "Himself" is the 18th century lothario, spy, writer ...