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On the 97th anniversary of his birth, Christie’s Maurice Sendak: Artist, Collector,…
Australia’s longest-running and most popular book exhibition, World of the Book, is celebrating its…
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Rare Book School has received a $1 million commitment from bibliophiles, collectors, and RBS supporters Cathy and Glen Miranker to honor its founding director and course instructor Terry Belanger by increasing scholarship access for RBS students.
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club opening next week explores how a growing New York City was portrayed for visitors and residents.On view in the Club’s second floor gallery from March 6 through May 10, Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps of New York City, 1807-…
Princeton University Library will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby in April with various on- and off-campus programming inspired by the library’s significant F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gatsby-related holdings, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers which were donated…
Rebecca Rego Barry, the former longtime editor of Fine Books & Collections, now director of communications at The Raab Collection, will discuss her latest book at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC on March 13.
Historic England has acquired the Janette Rosing Collection of England, a world-class collection of some of the finest earliest landscape photography of England, taken by leading practitioners of the time.The Rosing Collection includes more than 8,000 original black and white photographs of English…
An interdisciplinary exhibition examining the history, artistry, and impact of children’s literature has opened at The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
The New York Public Library will open an exhibition of a selection of Robert Motherwell’s prints from the 1960s to 1991, alongside annotated books from his private library on March 22.
An unassuming box in the archives at York’s Bar Convent has yielded the discovery of an illuminated medieval scroll known as an Arma Christi, featuring the prayer poem O Vernicle. The discovery in the the oldest living convent in the UK is one of the best-preserved examples extant, and the…
The famous photograph of Albert Einstein with his tongue out, has been sold for a record $338,630 at RR Auction at its Remarkable Rarities auction.
Her Majesty The Queen visits Canterbury in Kent today to unveil a statue of Aphra Behn, the first full-time professional woman writer in the English language. Behn (1640–1689) was baptised in Harbledown, just outside Canterbury, and spent her formative years in the city during the English…
