The British Library has acquired the literary archive of writer and essayist Ronald Blythe and will…
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Sotheby's New York will be offering the Rothschild copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, an extremely rare example of the earliest artist books, and one of the most valuable books of poetry ever offered on June 26.
Christie’s' forthcoming June 13-27 Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana online sale features a selection of color-plate books, manuscripts, early printed material, and literary classics.Highlights include: *
Mountains and plains and adventure: William & May Morris and Iceland has opened at their Kelmscott Manor country home in Oxfordshire, coinciding with the centenary of May Morris’s first trip to Iceland.
Sotheby’s has announced the auction of the Shem Tov Bible, one of the most significant medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, with an estimate of $5m-$7m.Written by the scholar Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon in 1312 in Soria, Castile, the Shem Tov Bible is a masterpiece of scribal art from the Golden…
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts depicting different places, peoples, and customs around the world from the perspective of medieval Europeans opens at The J. Paul Getty Museum on June 11.
An intriguing handwritten manuscript of bestselling French novel L’Étranger translated as The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus has sold for €500,000 ($544,000) at auction in Paris.
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' June 6 The Art of War: Historical & Political Posters auction include:* World War I recruiting poster (U.S. Navy, 1917), 26.5" X 40.5", I Want You for the Navy. The work of Howard Chandler Christy, war illustrator and creator of the famous 'Christy Girls'.…
Bayliss Rare Books is offering The Beckham Collection, a unique D-Day collection ahead of the 80th anniversary on June 6.
The sale of 19th and 20th century photographs at Chiswick Auctions on June 6 includes a group of 14 images from the influential series published by The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London from 1867-78.
Franz Kafka's deep insecurity about his work is the focus of a letter coming to Sotheby's in which he describes his problems with writer's block.
