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The Newberry Library has received a $4m grant from the Mellon Foundation which will fund a five-…
The top lot of Freeman's' latest auction was a manuscript document signed by John Hancock,…
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William Blake's The Tyger comes from his rare first issue of Songs of Experience and will be offered at Christie's next month as a single, unbound work, the only impression from the earliest colour printed edition that is in private hands.
The latest Freeman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts auction featured selections from Richard Flaherty’s Shakespeare library, including a previously unrecorded copy of the rare Third Folio which was the hightest selling lot at $121,150, more than triple its low estimate.
The Bonhams Deeds Not Words: A Women's Suffrage Collection online auction running November 10 – 20 features a single owner collection of rare suffragette memorabilia.The sale includes letters, photographs, memorabilia, postcards, books, and hunger strike medals that all tell the story of the women…
The anticipated top lot at Hake’s' November 18-19 sale is a Marvel X-Men #1 comic book published in September 1963 that contains the origin story and first appearance of the X-Men as well as Magneto. The Silver Age Marvel comic pairs a Stan Lee story with Jack Kirby’s cover and interior art…
The desk owned and used by J.R.R. Tolkien during his tenure as Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford in the 1940s and 1950s comes to auction next month at Christie's' Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time auction.
A religious reflection by Martin Luther, Frédéric Chopin’s signed publishing contracts, and a Civil War order from Abraham Lincoln are among the highlights at RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale which ends November 12.
A hitherto unknown photograph of the 19th century essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson has been acquired by William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library in Massachusetts. It is believed to be the second or third earliest known photograph of America’s most famous…
Peter Harrington is marking the 25th anniversary of its in-house fine bindery The Chelsea Bindery with the publication of a special catalogue showcasing 140 bindings.
More than 300 artists' books and experimental publications have gone on show in the MAK’s Turning Pages: Artists’ Books of the Present exhibition in Vienna.
A 1,000-year-old Latin Gospel manuscript believed to have been written by a community of women at Essen Abbey in Germany around the year 900 will come to auction next month at Christie's. The manuscript on vellum is one of fewer than ten 10th-century Latin Gospels to appear at…
