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The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair has returned to the Park…
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with 2025 David Ruggles Book Collecting Prize…
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A major gift and donation has helped the V&A secure David Bowie’s archive for the nation, with more than 80,000 items spanning six decades of the cultural icon’s career to be made available to the public for the first time.
Chawton House begins its 2023 visitor season and 20th anniversary year with two exhibitions.
Fine artist book producer Arion Press has released a curated selection of poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe in an edition equal to the 19th-century master of the macabre.
RR Auction's March Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale features 900+ lots, highlighted by a royalty section including a royal warrant signed by King James VI to discharge Sir Walter Raleigh from the Tower of London. The historic one-page document is dated March 19, 1615. The King's warrant was…
First Folio Day: the Bard at the Bod is a special free celebration of the life and work of William Shakespeare at the Bodleian's Weston Library in Oxford on March 4 marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of his First Folio.
Talks, activities, discussions and performances include:
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For the first time in 500 years two prayer books belonging to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn have been reunited and displayed together at Hever Castle in Kent, England.
Amaranthine Books is adding a new edition to its latest offering, a short story collection featuring 12 of Arthur Conan Doyle’s works about his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of a Dozen Favourites.
Austen, Whitman, Woolf all self-published? That’s right. In Do It Yourself! Self-Publishing from Letterpress to LaserJet, a new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library, “self-publishing” is deconstructed, offering a more encompassing view of the practice.
Christie’s is inviting foodies and collectors to explore four centuries of gastronomy and its history through a selection of books from the library of Baron Pierre de Crombrugghe.
A new exhibition focuses on the long history of pop-up books with moving parts, dials, three-dimensional spreads, and interactive flaps.
Pop-Up Books through the Ages at the Newberry - Trienens Galleries in Chicago examines how these special volumes have been popular with readers of all ages and…
