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A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 focusing on the life and legacy of the novelist will run at The…
A large selection of designs by Cecil Beaton including costume designs for My Fair Lady…
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The Huntington has acquired six major collections through the support of the Library Collectors’ Council including an archive of John Steinbeck material, previously unknown letters from a 17th-century Caribbean slave trader, and the first edition of the first color-printed medical text.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will begin its 100th anniversary on May 8 with a year-long celebration that includes a major exhibition, a summer festival, book giveaways, and a limited edition library card.
UNESCO has added 74 new documentary heritage collections to its Memory of the World Register, covering topics such as the scientific revolution, women's contribution to history, and major milestones of multilateralism.The register, now totalling 570 entries, consists of documentary collections…
Where the Wild Things Are illustrations are among 28 works by Maurice Sendak at Heritage Auctions' May 2 auction which also features other pieces with a literary theme.
Bonhams Paris holds an online sale on Monday, April 28, For All Mankind: The Artistic Legacy of Early Space Exploration. The 449 lots are NASA photographs from the collection of Victor Martin-Malburet, and include a 1969 print of the only photograph taken of Neil Armstrong on the moon (€18,000–25,…
Leading RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale in May is Charles Dickens’s ornate travel writing desk, a beautifully preserved fruitwood case adorned with carved mother-of-pearl inlay marked with his CD monogram and silver banding.
This week's Rare Book of the Week comes up for auction at Christie’s in its spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on May 1, an extremely rare folio from the Timurid manuscript, the Nahj al-Faradis, commissioned by Sultan Abu Sa’id Gurkan in 1466 in Timurid Herat.
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Eufrasia Burlamacchi by Loretta VandiA focus on the remarkable illuminated manuscripts produced by Sister Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1478–1548) who lived and worked in the convent of San…
The Blake Cottage Trust has been awarded a £243,954 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support essential conservation and planning efforts for Blake’s Cottage in Felpham, the historic Sussex home of poet and artist William Blake.This funding will enable the Trust to undertake three…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Josh Knight, proprietor of Manchester Rare Books in England:
