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Last week, Sotheby’s held an auction titled “50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs,” and while the sale sputtered a bit, the sleeper was a collection of early photographs and photobooks by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877).
Washington, DC — The William Morris Society in the United States is organizing an international celebration to commemorate the founding of the Kelmscott Press in 1891. We hope that many will join us in this unique collaborative opportunity to promote the life and work of William Morris, the beauty…
New York – Christie’s Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collection of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg totaled $12,405,625 and was 98% sold by lot and 92% sold by value with bidders from 23 countries participating.
Lots to watch this week (pun intended, sorry):
Chicago — Potter & Potter Auctions is pleased to announce this 760+ lot sale to be held on Saturday, May 15th starting at 10am CDT. Given current public health regulations, the event will be held entirely online and live streamed from the company's gallery, newly relocated to 5001 W. Belmont…
In case you missed it earlier this month, Tulane University Libraries presented this one-hour introduction to artist books, in conversation with three book artists, Alisa Banks, Kadin Henningsen, and Sara White, who discuss their work and processes.
Chichester, West Sussex, England — West Dean College of Arts and Conservation are pleased to announce that Hollie Drinkwater will be their first Book Conservator-in-Residence – beginning on Monday, April 19, 2021 on a part-time basis for 11 weeks. The opportunity has been made possible through…
New York — Old Master Through Modern Prints are at auction Thursday, May 6 at Swann Galleries. Prints feature in the sale, from Northern Renaissance and Golden Age icons Dürer and Rembrandt to Impressionist collaborations, European Modernists, and American printmakers.
Dallas, TX – Judge, one of the great American magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was renowned for many things: its wit, its politics, its immense circulation and its role as a launching pad for once-editor Harold Ross’ The New Yorker. But the satirical publication is perhaps best…
A Massachusetts antiquarian bookseller is offering for sale a first edition of Ethan Frome (1911), with what book collectors call major 'association' value. This UK first edition of one of Edith Wharton’s better-known novels bears her inscription to Alfred White, whom Wharton employed from 1888…
