Fine Books News: Recent
Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair returns to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea from May 14 through May…
Opening this summer at The Huntington will be its new exhibition This Land Is... which will focus…
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New York — The ABAA invites bibliophiles everywhere to join the hunt for rare books and all manner of fine works on paper at the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s Virtual Book Fair: New York Edition. This will take place September 9-12, in lieu of the in-person New York…
London — A first collected edition of Shakespeare's poems (1640) with an illustrious provenance – containing all but eight of the sonnets and other shorter, non-dramatic poetry – has returned to the UK after decades in the USA.
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Philadelphia — Freeman’s is honored to present The Alexander Hamilton Collection of John E. Herzog, a single-owner sale of Alexander Hamilton material, in an October 25 auction.
Collectors of documents of American history, particularly items related to Hamilton and the US Federalist Era, will find…
Washington, D.C. — The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L.J. West Collection includes 286 objects from the 1840s to about 1925 in three…
Summer is on the wane, but perhaps some of you out there are still planning a trip away. If you're heading to Cape Cod, gather some extra KN95s and hand sanitizer and add the Edward Gorey House at 8 Strawberry Lane in Yarmouth Port to your itinerary. A museum since Gorey's death in 2000, the house…
Earlier this year, book artist and illustrator Hannah Batsel made this extraordinary, hand-painted carousel pop-up book and titled it Weirder Than Fiction, an homage to the sci-fi/fantasy magazine Weird Tales.
Los Angeles – Books of hours were among the most widely produced and used manuscripts in the Middle Ages. These decorated prayer books not only structured time for their readers (over a day, a year, or a lifetime) but met an increasing demand for private and personalized Christian devotion.
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland celebrates the history of what early adopter Mark Twain called the “new-fangled writing machine.”
The Typewriter Revolution looks at the impact on society in general and the arts in particular of the likes of the Remington (particularly admired…
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