September 11, 2020 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Video Fridays: Conserving Rare Books at King’s College, Cambridge

Spend nine minutes gazing at some beautiful books and learning how King’s College Library conserves a collection of rare English literature and theology books that belonged to an early nineteenth-century college provost. A First Folio and Jane Austen first editions are among them.

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Book Arts

Miami Zine Fair 2025

Miami Zine Fair 2026 Details

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Maps

London in the 18th Century

New Book Focuses on Historic First Detailed Map of 18th Century London

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Sponsored

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Exhibitions

Clare Twomey's installation at Jane Austen's House

Jane Austen's House Hosts New Clare Twomey Art Installation Inspired by Her Letters

Manuscripts Reveal Hidden Lives of 18th and 19th Century Women in New Exhibition

Rare Documents of Pioneering Environmentalist Rachel Carson to go on Show

Americana

The Frederick Douglass signed letter

Frederick Douglass Letters and Bob Dylan Handwritten Lyrics to Auction

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Book People

Oliver Dickens

Charles Dickens's Great-Great-Great Grandson to Perform Ancestor's Famous 'Sikes and Nancy' Scene

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair 2026: Opening Night Report

David Ruggles Prize Winner Laurane Reine-Adelaïde on Collecting the Lived Experience of Caribbean Life

Auctions

Richard Burton’s ‘A Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina’ (1855)

Richard Burton First Editions Lead Armenian and Iranian Scholar's Personal Library Sale

Handwritten Phil Collins Genesis Lyrics to Auction

Signed Nikola Tesla Manuscript on Warfare to Auction

Visual Art

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Confirms Summer Opening Date

Unseen Winnie-the-Pooh Preliminary Sketches Come to Light

50 Years Of Punk Sale Features Sex Pistols and The Damned Handwritten Lyrics

Photographs

Untitled b from the series Riding 1st Class on the Titanic, 1974-1998, by Nathan Lyons

Center for Creative Photography Acquires Nine Photography Archives

The Photography Show Returns

Roger Therond's Photography Collection to Auction

Rare Books

The rediscovered 9th century manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn

Lost Copy of Earliest English Language Poem Discovered in Rome

New York International Antiquarian Book Fair: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Manhattan's Antiquities Trafficking Unit Recovers Rare John Keats Love Letters