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Colin Firth's Mr Darcy shirt
Colin Firth's Pride and Prejudice Darcy Shirt and Other Literary Costumes to Auction
The shirt worn by Colin Firth for his lake swim in the BBC television production of Pride
Book of Hours (Use of Sarum), Southern Netherlands, likely Bruges, circa 1430-1440. In Latin, with an added prayer in Middle English, illuminated manuscript on parchment. 15 full-page miniatures by the Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht
Book of Hours Exhibition Plus Precious Manuscripts and Rare Books at TEFAF Maastricht
Highlights from the latest edition of TEFAF Maastricht running March 9 - 14 include a special exhibition of Books of Hours from
220 items including editions, translations, commentary, ephemera, and reference works related to Edward Fitzgerald and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Available from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts
Five Rare Books for Collectors: Firsts Online
Highlights from Firsts Online, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association's virtual book fair running through March 3:
Some of the archive collection pictured in situ at Cambridge University Library
Poems on the Underground Archive Donated to Cambridge University Library
Hundreds of posters and ephemera which form the Poems on the Underground archive, including letters from leading poets, has been donated to
A presentation copy of Alice Rahon’s poetry book Sablier couché illustrated by Joan Miró, inscribed by the author to Peggy Guggenheim. The frontispiece is signed in pencil by Miró.
Five Rare Books for Collectors: Poetry
Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new Poetry catalogue include: 
Hocus Pocus Junior. The Anatomy of Legerdemain. Or, The Art of Juggling set forth in proper Colours. London: Printed by G. Dawson, 1663. The sixth edition, “with many additions.” One-third smooth calf over marbled boards, spine banded in gilt with date at foot and gilt-stamped title label. 32 leaves, unnumbered. Woodcut frontispiece, woodcuts in text. Dawes and Findlay bookplates. One of two known examples of this edition.
Five Rare Books for Collectors: Magic
Highlights from Potter & Potter's auction The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature
Literary Fist-Fighting, Rare Book Economics, and Carson McCullers: February Books Roundup
Our regular look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.
A pen and ink drawing, one of six from A Book of Old English Love Songs by George Wharton Edwards, New York: 1897. Signed by the artist lower right. The work was published in New Yor by Macmillan and contained an Introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie with all illustrations by Edwards. 
Illustration or chapter titles penciled in the margin (in the order of the book): 
Lullaby of a Lover, Rosalynd's Madrigal, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Ariel's Songs, To Althea from Prison.
Five Rare Books for Collectors: Valentine's Day
Highlights from James Cummins bookseller's Valentine's Day catalogue include:
Doves Press Bible (1903-1905), title page.
Complete Doves Type Alphabet Exhibited for First Time
Emery Walker's House in London is to put on Mudlarking: Unearthing London's Past, running March 2 through April 28.
The first English trade edition of Conan Doyle's The Lost World in its original dust jacket
Only Known Copy of First English Edition of The Lost World in Original Dust Jacket Leads A Study in Sherlock Part II
A huge collection of Sherlockiana and Arthur Conan Doyle items will go under the hammer ne