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The Morgan Library & Museum's Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling will…
The J. Paul Getty Museum will open its Beginnings: The Story of Creation in the Middle Ages…
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After the largest redevelopment in its history, The National Portrait Gallery in London will reopen again on June 22, 2023, with a programme of major exhibitions featuring intimate, never-before-seen portraits of The Beatles taken by Paul McCartney, pioneering female photographers such as Yevonde,…
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The Folio Society is celebrating its 75th anniversary by winning each of the four categories in which they were nominated at the 2022 British Book Design & Production Awards Awards. The editions honoured show the range and depth of Folio’s publishing, art direction and production expertise by…
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A rare, handwritten and signed letter Edgar Allan Poe letter, a Paris Commune Photograph Album, and a first edition of the English translation by Charles Wilkins of the Bhagavad Gita from 1785 are among highlights from Bonhams Skinner’s Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts sale which is…
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Following recent archival acquisitions that have expanded its collections of photography, the Bodleian Libraries has announced the opening of a season of photographic exhibitions and talks at the Weston Library, home of the Bodleian’s special collections.  
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Bound to Impress, the latest exhibition to open in the Mappa Mundi & Chained Library at Hereford Cathedral celebrates the bookbindings within the cathedral’s historic collections. The exhibition shows a selection of remarkable bindings drawn from the Cathedral's historic collections, from…
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The Grolier Club plays host to this hybrid event on January 25, 2.30pm-3.30pm. A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars - Christopher N. Warren, Max G'Sell, and Grolier Club member Samuel Lemley - will speak on Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods…
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Last spring, Fine Books & Collections broke the news that Colorado book collector David L. DiLaura had discovered, in his own home library, a second edition (1717) of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks that had once been owned by Newton himself.
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This February, Phillips’ New York Editions auction will feature over 140 lots of Contemporary prints, spanning 1950s to present. On view from 6 – 15 February at 432 Park Avenue, the live sale will take place on February 15 with two sessions, the first beginning at 10am and the second at 2pm.
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An astonishing discovery found at a 13th century Scottish castle has shed new light on the day-to-day domestic life of Robert Burns and his family, academics at the University of Glasgow have revealed.