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A life-size bronze of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner has been unveiled in Dorchester her home county…
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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Elizabeth DeBold, Curatorial Assistant at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.
Earlier this year, the Kislak Center for Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania hosted an exhibit and a symposium related to fine and private press
Facet Publishing have announced the release of the 3rd edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
WINTERTHUR, DELAWARE -- Winterthur, Museum, Garden & Library is pleased to announce a $35,000 Art
A rare presentation first edition of Karl Marx’s seminal work, Das Kapital, signed by the author and given to Johann Eccarius, the close friend with whom he fell out
A Dutch team of scientists and academics are employing a new X-Ray technology to decipher fragments of medieval manuscripts that were used in later bookbindings. The technology, called macro X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (MA-XRF), allows these fragments to be read without removing the…
Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday, has, coincidentally, been on my mind for the past few weeks.
Remarkable letters to the novelist Anthony Powell from some of the most famous names in 20th century English literature - including Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and Philip Larkin - are to be sold at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale in London on 15 June. They have a combined estimated value of…
The Carnavalet museum, the archaeological crypt located under the parvis of Nôtre-Dame, and the Petit Palais are just three of the 14 institutions that comprise the muni
