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A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
Decorations and holiday trees inspired by poems, traditional tales, and children’s books are on…
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(Minneapolis, MN) - Form+Content Gallery presents Shadows and Dust, a solo exhibition of recent work by gallery member Jody Williams.
AUGUST 2016 [San Francisco, CA] - John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller announces the grand opening of The William Blake Gallery, a new exhibition space in San Francisc
BERNARD QUARITCH LIMITED is about to publish a new catalogue dedicated to 250 years of Wom
Les Enluminures is pleased to present Visions of Jerusalem: Medieval Christendom Imagines
New York, NY, August 18, 2016—The Morgan Library & Museum announced today the addition of a number of important objects to its renowned collections.
Author and children's picture book historian Leonard Marcus recently curated an exhibition at the Pratt Institute's Manhattan Gallery that celebrates the art of children's literature as well as the influence two major New York institutions have had on the creation of picture books over the past…
Wayne A. Wiegand, a leading scholar of American public libraries and American book history, has been appointed a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His appointment begins in January 2017 and will conclude in early May.
Wiegand is the F. William…
OXFORD, 18 August 2016 - Researchers from the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and from universities in the Netherlands have used high-tech imaging to uncover the details of a ra
The third Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize at the University of London has been awarded to Clara Tait, a part-time MSc Psychology student at Birkbeck, for her collection ‘These were the hours: Nancy Cunard and the Hours Press 1928-1931’. A runner’s up prize was awarded to Arendse Lund for a…
Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Dr. Emily Dourish, Deputy Head of Rare Books at Cambridge University Library.
