Fine Books News: Recent
The Brooklyn Museum has unveiled a rare 21ft complete and gilded Book of the Dead, the finest…
The Institute of English Studies in London is offering an insight into book collecting prizes…
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Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion, which opens today, is the first major exhibition to explore the fashion of the Bloomsbury group, and how the 20th century cultural collective still impacts global style more than 100 years later.
Freeman’s September 27 sale includes a distinguished selection of 18th- and 19th-century travel and color plate books, led by a rare first edition of Frederick Catherwood’s 1844 Views of the Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, as well as volumes on the Mediterranean and…
As part of Phaidon's 100th anniversary celebrations this year the publishing house has opened up its archives for a special exhibition at Christie’s, Rockefeller Center, New York which runs through September 18 before travelling to London in October.
A major new exhibition, Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, at the British Library will explore the evolution of fantasy. From ancient folk tales and fairy stories, gothic horror and weird fiction, to live action role-playing games inspired by fantasy worlds, the exhibition will celebrate the genre and…
A life-sized bronze statue of Dame Agatha Christie has been unveiled in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, where she lived for more than four decades.
ALDE sells 386 lots of Livres Anciens on Wednesday, September 13, including a 1542 French edition of Boccaccio's Filocolo, which is expected to sell for €4,000–5,000.
'Small performances' will allow researchers at Cambridge University Library to step back in time to look at the creation of one of the world’s most popular and enduring typefaces, Baskerville.A second project at the library looking at the secrets contained within sacred texts of some of the world’s…
A copy of John Gould’s Monograph of the Trogonidae will be offered in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale at Tennants Auctioneers on September 29, with an estimate of £15,000-20,000.
York National Book Fair, running since 1974, has become the largest rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print book fair in the UK and Europe. The 2023 fair, featuring books, prints, maps, and ephemera, takes place at York Racecourse over two days, September 15-16, with around 200 booksellers.
The first real public narrative movie screening took place in Paris in 1895 featuring the Lumière brothers' comedy short L'Arroseur Arrosé (The Waterer Watered). The event was promoted by a large poster that depicted an enthusiastic audience enjoying this new kind of entertainment.
