Rebecca Rego Barry
In our current issue, Nick Basbanes talks with historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen about their latest book, "The Library: A Fragile History."
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’Tis the season for travel and tourism, even in the collecting world. If these are areas of interest, three upcoming events should be on your itinerary.
This week I am at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School taking a week-long course called Provenance: Tracing Owners and Collectio
James Fleming, nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and editor of The Book Collector, published an illuminating book last year that explores a shadowy corner of the 007 universe: how t
Last fall, the mighty literary organization PEN, which originated in London as a dining club for writers, celebrated its 100th anniversary.
In honor of the holiday upon us, here's a fun look at Thanksgiving past.
A First Folio of Shakespeare’s works—one of fewer than twenty remaining in private hands, and this one with Scottish provenance dating back to the seventeenth century—sold at Sotheby’s yesterday fo
The tourism organization VisitScotland has decreed 2022 a “Year of Stories,” and to that end has launched a project called
