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Rare Book School at the University of Virginia's 2025 schedule includes more than 40 classes,…
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) is to hold an exhibition of 40 contemporary handcrafted…
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Charismatic young actor Vivian MacKerrell was one of the inspirations for the eponymous central character in Withnail and I, writer-director Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult classic. His never previously released diaries which feature vivid first-hand accounts of moments immortalised on screen including…
Going under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York's Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on June 26 are three major lots focusing on Robert Frost, A. E. Housman, and William Blake.
Lee Elias’ original art for Black Cat Mystery No. 50 has sold for $840,000 after a prolonged bidding war at Heritage Auctions' June Comics & Comic Art auction.
The Folio Society today launched a limited edition of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, illustrated by independent design studio La Boca and introduced by novelist Elif Shafak.The launch is accompanied by research from the publisher around the key themes in the novel as it relates to the…
A rare autograph musical manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven featuring his first draft for the lied Neue Liebe, neues Leben (New Love, New Life), has been sold for $225,000 at Boston-based RR Auction.
The Dublin-born novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch has been commemorated with one of English Heritage's iconic Blue Plaques.
The Morgan Library & Museum has announced three new appointments to its curatorial departments. Sheelagh Bevan is promoted to Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, Dr. Pınar Durgun joins the Morgan as Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Associate Curator of Ancient Western Asian…
Continuing Freeman’s | Hindman’s spring series of books, manuscripts, and historical ephemera sales, its Books and Manuscripts auction on June 25 will feature around 300 lots of printed Americana, literature, fishing, art, maps, prints, and more, led by English Romantic poet John Keats's…
Scotland is rarely considered among the big players in the Northern Renaissance, something curators at the National Library of Scotland are seeking to remedy with a new exhibition opening tomorrow (June 21) in Edinburgh.Visitors to Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480–1630 can view books,…
85 photography lots focusing on 19th and 20th century Scottish life collected by Dr Murray Mackinnon go under the hammer today at Lyon & Turnbull.In 2018, the National Library and National Galleries of Scotland acquired The Mackinnon Collection, one of its most important photographic…
