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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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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is delighted to present its newest exhibition: What Might You Do? Christian Robinson. It opens January 14, 2023 and is on view through June 4, 2023. In only 10 years, Christian Robinson has emerged as a transformative voice in children’s literature.…
The David Stather Library, a remarkable private collection put together over a lifetime, is to be sold in a single-owner sale at Tennants Auctioneers, North Yorkshire on January 25. The books have been lovingly preserved by Stather and the auction provides a rare opportunity to purchase books from…
The artist, illustrator and best-selling author Charlie Mackesy is taking over Sotheby’s London on New Bond Street this Christmas with a new selling exhibition of his work (December 16 - January 13), and the transformation of Sotheby’s “Story Café” with floor-to-ceiling murals hand painted by the…
Two iconic Philadelphia institutions are teaming up to provide public access to an extraordinary historical collection. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has acquired the archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music in an agreement that will facilitate research and access…
A Harry Potter-mad teenager won the rarest Potter book ever seen by a books expert – and it could deliver a magical result at Hansons' Christmas Harry Potter & Library Auction in December.
In 2012 when Chloe Esslemont was a 16-year-old school girl at The Nelson Thomlinson School…
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has acquired the archive of American author Thomas Pynchon, considered by many to be among the greatest novelists of our time. Comprising 70 linear feet of materials created between the late 1950s and the 2020s - including typescripts and…
Jane Austen was born on Saturday December 16, 1775 – a bitterly cold winter’s night, 247 years ago. Join us online for a fabulous birthday celebration that you can enjoy from home - wherever you are in the world!
Our virtual birthday party has quickly become a much-loved annual tradition! This…
Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914), although little remembered today, was a foremother of modern-day social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers baring souls in print. In millions of published words of fiction and journalism - including in her own bimonthly magazine, The East Side (…
RR Auction's December Science & Technology sale chronicles the history of scientific advancement in the 20th century, boasting a broad array of important autographs, artifacts, hardware, objects, and ephemera.
The auction opens with memorabilia from the career of Otto Berg, a pioneering space…
The Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath has been successful in its quest to buy Caroline Herschel’s own handwritten manuscript draft of her memoir, thanks to generous funding from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of National Libraries,…
