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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amalia V. of New York City who was an…
The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-…
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Although the pandemic put a temporary halt to live book fairs, Getman’s Virtual Book and Paper Fairs have taken place monthly since the pandemic began and are continuing now that book fairs have returned.
Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first book published by an African American woman, a ‘tricky’ math problem Einstein solved for a class of high schoolers, and a Shaker manuscript hymnal are among the highlights at Bonhams’ Fine Books & Manuscripts…
Christie’s is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with a landmark non-selling exhibition, Shakespeare’s First Folio: The First Four Hundred Years, uniquely bringing together six copies, the largest single display of First Folios assembled in the…
A missal owned by Fr John Huddleston, the Catholic priest who saved King Charles II's life after his defeat in the English Civil War, has been acquired by the National Trust.
Ending on Monday, April 24, Bonhams Hong Kong's online sale The Pleasures of Living: A Single-Owner Book Collection (Part 1: Dessert Cookbooks), in 33 lots.
This year's Lyell Lectures series at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford will focus on the role of amanuenses in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
Finally clocking off for the day, leaving the dark satanic cotton mills of Manchester and Lancashire behind for a few precious hours, what were the options available for workers in Victorian times and the early years of the twentieth century to lighten the gloom and grimness of the daily grind?
Sotheby’s is to stage a one-off Coronation Sale which brings together a range of royal letters, fine manuscripts, jewellery, artwork, and objects that reflect upon Britain’s royal past from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The full contents of the auction, include:
This weekend there will be so many copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio on display around the world that you would be forgiven for thinking it’s actually as easy to find as Fifty Shades of Grey.
Highlights from the private library of revered British actor Eric Idle, founding member of the Monty Python comedy troupe, will be on offer at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) by johnson rare books & archives.
