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A copy of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer produced by the esteemed Kelmscott Press in 1896 has…
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire will kick off the celebrations for Austen’s 250th…
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Gallerist Annina Nosei has donated the complete run of catalogues of Annina Nosei Gallery, 1986 to 2005, to Magazzino Italian Art's Germano Celant Research Center. Taken together, the catalogues document a significant period in recent art history.
A major National Lottery Heritage Fund grant will help finance the opening of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration on a heritage site in London's Clerkenwell. The grant brings the total funding secured to acquire and develop the site to £11.5 million, with work due to begin this autumn.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has made an award of $25,000 to San Francisco Center for the Book for its forthcoming exhibition David Anthony King: Book Projects and Zines, 1977 - 2019.
Handwritten notes and doodles on stationery from Houston's Rice Hotel by President John F. Kennedy from November 21, 1963, the night before his assassination, have sold for $34,504 at RR Auction.
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America has announced the first season of the ABAA Diversity Initiative, a guided discovery program for those historically underrepresented among workers in the trade, black, indigenous, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. Designed to run…
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is inviting booksellers, collectors, librarians, and anybody handling antiquarian material to attend its symposium Libraries, Booksellers and Collectors discuss Provenance, Restitution and the Conservation of our Written Heritage at Paris'…
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced a new multiyear agreement with Ancestry to digitize, index, and publish tens of millions of historical United States records, previously unavailable online.
Firsts London 2024, the rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London, runs May 16 - 19 with 'The Art of the Book' as the theme for this year.The Fair will gather more than 100 international dealers who will be bringing items including bejewelled bindings, pop-up books, Japanese…
Senate House Library has acquired a rare copy of the first cheap edition of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop from 1848, featuring 34 original Victorian pen and ink drawings.
Correspondence between mathematics colleagues Albert Einstein and Herman Müntz will be up for auction at the Books, Maps & Manuscripts auction on June 13 at Stockholms Auktionsverk.
