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Handwritten correspondence and design sketches will feature in a new exhibition next year to mark…
For this year’s edition of Frieze Masters Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books will display English…
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This week's Rare Book of the Week appears at PBA Galleries' Photography & Fine Art; Fine Press & Fine Bindings - with Rare & Antiquarian Books sale on August 14.It's lot 303, a first edition the 1662 Cantus, songs and fancies: To thre, foure, or five partes, both apt for voices and…
FrielDays: A Homecoming is a theatrical celebration throughout August marking the centenary of the Irish playwright Brian Friel.It will begin with a 35th anniversary production of his most celebrated play, Dancing at Lughnasa, staged only 50m from the house in which it is set, and end with a…
Here are a few sales I'll be keeping an eye on over the next couple of weeks:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, August 12, 215 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.
Washington Irving’s original 90 page draft manuscript of Legend of the House of Omeya written during his years in Spain with revisions in the author’s hand is one of the stars of RR Auction’s Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Art, Literature, Books, and Animation ending August 13. Other…
The National Library of Scotland marks its official birthday today on the 100th anniversary of its creation via an Act of Parliament.Visitors to the National Library at George IV Bridge Edinburgh and Kelvin Hall in Glasgow will be given their own copy of a special edition centenary comic, created…
Highlights from Heritage Auctions' Historical Manuscripts including Texana on August 8 include:Richard S. Hunt and Jesse F. Randel, Map of Texas (New York: J. H. Colton, 1839)
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Vintage Posters auction on August 7 include: * Two versions of Fred Spear's, Enlist, 1915 (estimate $7,000 - $10,000 and 1917 (estimate: $3,000 - $4,000)* Designer Unknown, Dear God Keep Them Safe, 1942 (estimate $15,000 _ $20,000)* Karl Koehler and Victor…
A celebration of the work of printer Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press is the focus of The Baxter Society's current exhibition Printing Books for Four Decades.
Fine Book Fairs is gauging interest in the possibility of running The UK Rare Book Collectors' Conference in 2026.The prospective dates are June 19 through June 21 at the Grade II listed Knowsley Hall, home of the Earl and Countess of Derby and originally a medieval hunting lodge.
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