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Incline Press, one of the few surviving private press printers in the UK using entirely letterpress printing from metal type, has published The Tragical Comedy or the Comical Tragedy of Punch & Judy plus two other pamphlets.
Believed to be the earliest extant photographic portrait of a First Lady, the daguerreotype was the subject of fierce competition in Sotheby’s' latest sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana, and sold for ten times its estimate at $456,000. It is the most valuable American…
Special planting ceremonies held in the United States are hoped to result in the regeneration of an historic tree admired by groundbreaking essayist and lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson.
At Heritage Auctions' part 1 sale of The William A. Strutz Library an inscribed copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was sold for $425,000, a presentation copy of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit went for $300,000, and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or Life in…
A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio which was sold by London rare book dealer Peter Harrington last year has debuted at its new home as one of the highlights of the new Namedropping exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania.
Doyle's auction of the Collection of Stephen Sondheim included a wide range of items from the composer and lyricist's Manhattan townhouse and country home in Roxbury, Connecticut, including various reference works.
Thomas Taylor's original watercolour illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has sold for $1.9 million at Sotheby’s to become the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction. The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly 10 minutes…
A poster by brothers Vladimir & Georgij Stenberg advertising the 1929 silent movie Man with the Movie Camera will go under the hammer on July 4 at Kiefer's Alte Drucke, Handschriften und Theologie auction.The Stenbergs were avant-garde Russian artists and designers who also produced posters for…
Freeman’s | Hindman's first Western Manuscripts and Miniatures sale in Chicago on June 27 will present illuminated leaves and Books of Hours from the 13th to the 15th centuries, and showcase more than 70 lots with an estimated total value of $400,000.Gretchen Hause, Senior Vice President and…
Ruth Nelkin of Stamford, Connecticut and New York City was a collector of iconic Japanese prints, around 250 of which will go under the hammer tomorrow at Heritage Auctions featuring works by masters of the form including Katsushika Hokusai, Takahashi Hiroaki, and Yoshida Hiroshi.
