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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London has announced its winter programme of…
The Raab Collection has acquired and is offering for sale a letter from Thomas Jefferson to…
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Lyon & Turnbull are presenting a spectacular document never before offered for sale, uniting Nelson with an astonishing array of characters in his story and providing a snapshot of a moment of sublime unreality amid a period of high tension in the contest for the Mediterranean. It…
The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City April 27-30, 2023, for its 63rd Edition.
Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, announced today that he will step down in September after successfully delivering 14 editions of the internationally-acclaimed festival.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens will exhibit for the first time the oldest printed book in its collection, The Scripture of the Great Flower Ornament of the Buddha.
Last year, the British Library and its development partners Stanhope plc and Mitsui Fudosan UK Ltd (SMBL) submitted a planning application to extend, reorient and open up its St Pancras site. Following an extensive consultation process with our users and neighbours, the plans have now been approved…
Handwritten personal correspondence from poet and novelist Philip Larkin to his cousin in Lichfield, England, is coming up for auction in the city. The archive goes under the hammer in Richard Winterton Auctioneers’ Fine Art Sale on February 15, at The Lichfield Auction Centre.
It includes one of…
The Property from The Estate of Veronique and Gregory Peck auction will feature numerous scripts spanning Peck's film career, awards, landmark costumes, works of art and mementos the couple accrued during their lives. The auction will be presented by Heritage Auctions on February 23.
A chance meeting with a children’s author 23 years ago could spark an auction windfall for a retired school librarian.
In 1999 Janette Tuckwell was working at Millfield Preparatory School in Glastonbury, England, when she received a call from Waterstones book shop in Wells, Somerset.
Janette…
The Adana printing press is 100 years old and to mark the centenary of the company St Bride Library in London has launched a new exhibition, Print Pound Notes! Celebrating 100 years of Adana. The display will bring together for the first time a unique collection of material, including early…
The love-hate relationship Mark Twain had with typewriters is well-documented. The author known best for his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn soured on the devices - he acquired his first in 1874 - that were according to him, "full of caprices, full of defects - devilish ones."
He was…
