Gil's Book Loft

Book Arts

A handwritten page of the original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by the author.

18th Annual Wonderland Awards: Call for Entries

New Edgar Allan Poe Edition Binding Features Brick Dust from his Home

New Fine Press Editions of Peter Pan From Conversation Tree Press

Rare Books

At the start of the book, Dubois weighs up the pros and cons of dining à la Française or à la Russe

Urbain Dubois’ The Household Cookery Book to Auction

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Colour Plate Books

19th Century Silhouette Portrait Album Reveals Hundreds of Identities

Visual Art

Oliver Twist by George Cruikshank

The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery Launches

National Audubon Society Decides to Retain Name

New Library of Congress Books on Food and Photography

Auctions

Colored wood engraving by Gwen Raverat

Raverat Engravings, Wellington Letters, and 54th Massachusetts Surgeon's Diary: Auction Preview

J. J. Lally Reference Library Under the Hammer

Unseen Unpublished Roger Casement Autograph Letters to Auction

Photographs

Ansel Adams, Moonrise

Ansel Adams, Paul Greenberg, and Beatles in America Photographs to Auction

Berenice Abbott’s 1929 Photographic Album of New York City on Show

Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, and Richard Avedon Photographs to Auction

Exhibitions

Preparations for the Deathless Fragments exhibition

Deathless Fragments Manuscript Exhibition Opens

Flower Fairies Centenary Celebrated in New Exhibition

Thunderbirds Are Go! Gerry Anderson’s Century 21

Maps

John Speed's atlas

John Speed 17th Century Atlas Makes Auction Debut

18th Century California Map the First to Depict San Francisco Bay

Medieval & Early Modern Maps on View at Yale

Sponsored

reading a book

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Heritage Seeks Illustration Art for April Sale

Americana

Suzanne Rognon Bernardi, The Story of a Whale Hunt, Wales, circa 1906.

Whaling Journal and Civil War Diaries to Auction

Canadian Banknote with Queen Elizabeth II Portrait Leads Auction

Book People

Anne Lister's Diaries

New Edition of Anne Lister’s Diaries Published

Laurence Sterne's Shandy Hall Receives Major Renovation Grant

Books About Books: Spring 2023 Picks