This week's Rare Book of the Week comes up for auction at Christie’s in its spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on May 1, an extremely rare folio from the Timurid manuscript, the Nahj al-Faradis, commissioned by Sultan Abu Sa’id Gurkan in 1466 in Timurid Herat.

Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Eufrasia Burlamacchi by Loretta VandiA focus on the remarkable illuminated manuscripts produced by Sister Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1478–1548) who lived and worked in the convent of San…

The Blake Cottage Trust has been awarded a £243,954 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of poet and artist William Blake.This funding will enable the Trust to undertake three…

Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Josh Knight, proprietor of Manchester Rare Books in England:

The only known set of unbound gathered sheets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will lead Heritage Auctions' May 8-9 Rare Books auction.

A campaign to keep the Lake District home of William Wordsworth open to the public rather than being privately sold has been backed by some of the UK's best known creative names.

Sotheby's' auction dedicated solely to all four Shakespeare Folios will mark the first time they have been offered as a single lot since 1989.

Inscribed first edition books by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, and more than 35 association copies as well as autograph letters and original artworks created for some of his most famous stories are going under the hammer at Bonhams' online auction running until April 29.

The Reading Agency’s State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025 report released for World Book Day today indicates a growing reading crisis among adults who report distraction as one of the most common barriers to reading for pleasure in the UK. According to select findings from its upcoming…

More than 100 works by artists who inspired illustrator Maurice Sendak as well as almost 30 original works by Sendak himself will go under the hammer at Christie's.Maurice Sendak, Artist, Collector, Connoisseur includes a live auction on June 10 which would have been Sendak’s 97th birthday, and an…