![A Declaration […] Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity [of] Taking up Arms (Philadelphia: Bradford, 1775)](/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_feature_story/public/media-images/2025-12/declaration.jpg?itok=djuC7fMn)
The current exhibition at The New York Historical focuses on the development of the ideas of the…
Fine Books News: Recent
The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
Topics
Arthur Ransome fans will gather in the Lake District this summer for a marathon reading of Swallowdale, one of the adventures in the Swallows and the Amazons series.
The event will take place over the June 24/25 weekend at the Windermere Jetty Museum and devotees of the children’s story of all…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Alexandra Plane of Oxford, England. Alexandra won the 2020 Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize and received special mention in the 2021 ABA Book Collecting Prize:
Where are you from / where do you live?
The Raab Collection has unveiled two powerful and revealing Ernest Hemingway letters that touch upon writing, life, filming The Old Man and the Sea, fishing, travel, and, perhaps most importantly, death and the afterlife, including his near-death experience in two airplane crashes. They also shed…
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, London rare bookseller Peter Harrington has announced a landmark offering of copies of each of the four Folios as well as a first collected edition of Shakespeare’s Poems. This is a rare occasion for a single collector to…
John Speed's market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman sold for £33,750 ($41,580) at Chiswick Auctions. Speed’s A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World bound together with The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine had come for sale by family…
A new exhibition at Charles Dickens’s London home - A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog - looks at how the author used fog as a regular and imposing motif in his works. As well as a major inspiration to Dickens, it was also a personal health hazard, intensifying the asthma from…
The libraries of the National Trust - which runs more than 500 historic properties across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - constitute one of the nation's most impressive collections of rare books. The charity's marvellous new richly-illustrate book brings together a wide selection of the most…
Arion Press's new King Artist in Residency is a new book arts initiative in honor of the Grabhorn Institute’s late board chair Kevin King. The King Residency will bring visual artists to Arion’s historic facility to create and conceive book and print projects alongside the Press’s team of expert…
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
Swann Galleries' April 13 Printed & Manuscript Americana auction features an exciting an array of Civil War material represented by several diaries, including an officer on a desert expedition undertaken by the 1st California Cavalry; a Virginia Military Institute cadet pressed into active…
