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One of the world’s most significant Hindu scriptures has left the University of Oxford's Bodleian…
A three-page typed letter signed by Virginia Woolf and a handwritten draft manuscript page by…
Recent Publications
Scotland's First Lending Library Publishes First Book The First Light is a new book with unusual credentials. Its publisher is a library. It is one of only two or three hot metal letterpress books to be published in the United Kingdom in 2009. It is hand finished and leather bound in an edition…
Recent Publications
One of the enduring images of journalists ‘hard at work’ over a substantial meal followed by champagne and cigars has filtered down to us from Punch magazine in the mid-19th century, when weekly dinners around the famous Punch table were a focal point of discussion, debate, gossip, and ribaldry.
Events
"Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre- Raphaelites" will be the subject of a conference and related exhibitions to be held 7-9 October 2010 at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE) and at the Delaware Art Museum and the Winterthur Museum & Country…
Exhibit
The Morgan Library & Museum to Exhibit Superb Selection of Drawings and Sketchbooks by Edgar DegasDegas: Drawings and Sketchbooks Opens September 24, 2010
Exhibit
The Morgan Library & Museum to hold first exhibition devoted exclusively to Roy Lichtenstein's black-and-white drawingsRoy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968, opens September 24, 2010
Auctions
Lucille Ball memorabilia from the Estate of Gary Morton - including love letters, Rolls Royce, awards and artwork - at auction in Beverly Hills July 17 auction features Lucy trove consigned by Susie Morton, wife of Lucy’s second husband Gary Morton 
Auctions
Yonkers, NY - June 29, 2010 - Three rarities of the collecting world will share the spotlight at an August 10th auction in New York at Cohasco Inc. A telltale stroke of a quill pen on an old document could make it one of the earliest signals of the Declaration of Independence. The unique document,…
Exhibit
Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from August 2 through November 29. The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work — from a 1960 sample book, used when he…
News
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Auctions
Bloomsbury Auctions Presents Important Works from Borges and Steinbeck in its Travel, Literature, Autographs and Fine Books Sale, Wednesday, June, 23, 2010 at 10am and 2pm