The Charles Dickens Museum has announced that its current Deputy Director, Frankie Kubicki, will…
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A Christmassy selection for this week's Rare Book of the Week, a Bible (both Old and New Testaments…
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After eight years of planning and construction, the Warburg Institute in London's Bloomsbury will reopen on October 2 following a £14.5 million transformation with newly renovated spaces including a new reading room.Designed by architects Haworth Tompkins, highlights include the Wohl Reading Room…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Emma Treleaven, winner of the 2023 ABA National Book Collecting Prize.Where are you from / where do you live?I grew up in Canada, but I’ve lived in London, England for over 10 years now. I'm lucky to call both places home!What did you study at…
A new exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of Claire Van Vliet’s Janus Press by showcasing the artist’s dramatic pulp paintings and prints alongside about two dozen artists’ books from the Boston Athenaeum’s Janus Press collection.
The National Archives will add the 19th Amendment, which removed restrictions for women to vote, to the permanent display of the Charters of Freedom in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, in March 2026.
At Artcurial on Tuesday, September 24, 120 lots of Livres & Manuscrits, including Buffon's Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1770–1786) in twenty volumes, estimated at €15,000–30,000 and Hans Bellmer's 1949 Les Jeux de la Poupée, Illustrés de textes par Paul Éluard (€25,000–35,000).
The 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize has been awarded to Elena Wicker from Washington, DC, soon to be a national security analyst at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, for Military Mania: A Collection of U.S. Military Dictionaries from 1776 to Today.
A first English edition of the Gothic novel The Necromancer, bearing the crested monogram of Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys has been sold at Chorley’s Auctioneers for £12,500.
A Thing of Beauty is a celebration of the art and craft of book production featuring many diverse examples of fine bindings, illustrations, illumination as well as innovations in book decoration, brought together in a new catalogue from Peter Harrington.
An autograph letter signed by Neville Chamberlain on the day of his resignation as Prime Minister, May 10, 1940, is joined by ephemera linked to Lincoln's assassination, and letters by Mozart and Beethoven at RR Auction's Remarkable Rarities auction.
Heritage Auction’s October 1 Photographs auction will include work from a rare set of photographs by Tina Modotti and her work with Louis Bunin, a selection by Paul Strand, and more than 80 works from the collection of the late Hal Gould, photographer and owner of Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver.
