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The Morgan Library & Museum will open A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s…
Author, artist, and designer Edward Gorey created work that has permeated both our commercial and…
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This year's Lyell Lectures will be given by Professor Leah Price at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and via Zoom. The series will look at how Victorians and their servants interacted with books and their respective reading lives.
A broadside announcing martial law during the 1921 Tulsa Race massacre will be offered in Heritage Auctions' April 25-26 Americana & Political auction.
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club will examine the verbal and visual qualities of experimental poetry presented by publishers of small independent presses.
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An important archive of Alan Turing's unpublished Second World War papers has been saved from leaving the UK following a collaboration between various institutions.
December 4, 1965, marked the live debut of the Grateful Dead and tacked up around San Jose was the band's simple, hand-drawn poster asking: “Can you pass the Acid Test?”. It is among the highlights of Heritage Auctions' April 17-19 Music Memorabilia & Concert Posters auction.This particular…
Reseachers examining volumes held by European monasteries have revealed that rather than deer or boar skin, sealskin was used in their construction.
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them is a rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. It's my third nonfiction book, involved a lot of research and a bit of book collecting, and came out in…
Bonhams will host an online auction Airborne: A Fundraising Sale for the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration running April 21-29 April.
A new exhibition at the Library of Congress seeks to reveal the real George Washington and King George III of Britain behind the myths.George III and Washington never met but The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution brings them together for the first time through their letters,…
