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Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Amalia V. of New York City who was an…
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Ohio is packed with parts of medieval books and some of the finest manuscript examples are now on display in Deathless Fragments, a new exhibition at The Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library.
As Good as a Marriage, The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-38 by Jill Liddington continues the story of the woman known as Gentleman Jack to millions of viewers of the HBO and BBC television series of the same name.
We reported in the winter issue of Fine Books & Collections on the diaries, the…
Recognised as one of the great scholar-dealers of Chinese art, James Lally has been a leader in the field for more than 40 years. On March 23, a live auction at Christie’s in New York features 138 objects from his namesake gallery, J. J. Lally & Co. The auction will also be accompanied by the…
Six unseen and unpublished autograph letters from Roger Casement to his regular correspondent and confidant the German journalist Max Karstensen are to be offered at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in London on March 29. They are estimated at £4,000-6,000 ($4,900-$7,400).
A new online resource which contains all the original illustrations to Charles Dickens's novels and Sketches by Boz has launched. Users can download and use all the images for free.
The home of Laurence Sterne, author of the groundbreaking The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman has been awarded a Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) grant of £166,250 to carry out essential repairs.
Heritage will offer a selection of the late Dr. Paul Greenberg's extraordinary photograph collection in its Photographs Auction on April 4 plus wilderness and nature photography by Ansel Adams, naked Marilyns by Bert Stern, a collection of photographs by one of the top British…
Books included on our spring issue’s Editor’s Shelf are three novels and two works of nonfiction, all highly recommended.
The Lady Lever Art Gallery will explore 100 years of Cicely Mary Barker’s ethereal illustrations in a new exhibition Flower Fairies. In association with Penguin Ventures (part of Penguin Random House UK), the exhibition in Liverpool looks at the delicate work created by Barker.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the launch of William Bache’s Silhouettes Album, a microsite featuring new research and digitized images for 1,800 cut-paper silhouettes by Anglo-American artist William Bache.
