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Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Oliver Bayliss, proprietor of Bayliss Rare…
Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages will showcase the many ways artists during the Middle Ages…
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Forum Auctions has welcomed Vicki Wonfor as its new CEO, joining founding directors Stephan Ludwig, Rupert Powell and Poppy Walker. The appointment coincides with the firm’s ninth anniversary of its first sale in July 2016. Over the intervening years Forum - a London-based specialist…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections advisor specializing in rare books and manuscripts as well as fine photography and prints.
A first edition copy of the landmark 19th century ornithological publication The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould is coming up for sale at Tennants on August 22 with an estimate of £25,000-£35,000.
John le Carré: Tradecraft is a new exhibition opening in October 2025 at the Bodleian Libraries which will explore the legacy of the writer otherwise known as David Cornwell.
An exhibition highlighting the prolific yet largely forgotten British poet, literary critic, translator, novelist, anthologist, and biographer Richard Aldington will open at the Grolier Club next month.Running September 11 through November 15, Richard Aldington: Versatile Man of Letters …
Handwritten correspondence and design sketches will feature in a new exhibition next year to mark the centenary of Queen Elizabeth II’s birth at The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace will play host to the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the late Queen’s fashion ever…
For this year’s edition of Frieze Masters Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books will display English manuscripts from the Library of Longleat House which is the seat of the Marquesses of Bath.
This week's Rare Book of the Week appears at PBA Galleries' Photography & Fine Art; Fine Press & Fine Bindings - with Rare & Antiquarian Books sale on August 14.It's lot 303, a first edition the 1662 Cantus, songs and fancies: To thre, foure, or five partes, both apt for voices and…
FrielDays: A Homecoming is a theatrical celebration throughout August marking the centenary of the Irish playwright Brian Friel.It will begin with a 35th anniversary production of his most celebrated play, Dancing at Lughnasa, staged only 50m from the house in which it is set, and end with a…
At RR Auction on August 13, Fine Autographs and Artifacts, in 837 lots, including a remarkable Disney artifact: a "continuity sketch book" for the opening minutes of Pinocchio (1940), with 114 pages containing 48 storyboard drawings and nearly 200 photographic storyboard images.
