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On display for the first time at the Charles Dickens Museum in London are two letters which shed light on Charles Dickens and his LGBTQ+ characters and his work as a social reformer.They are part of the museum's exhibition which opened this week celebrating 100 years since it opened its doors for…
How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition opens at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D. C. on February 21, examining how literary figures ranging from royal advisors to household staff used cunning and creative means to…
A new world record has been set at Forum Auctions when a fully signed, first edition, first impression set of the The Lord of the Rings sold for £287, 700 (hammer price + buyer’s premium), against an estimate of £70,000 - £90,000.
The Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have announced a breakthrough in the bid to decipher text preserved on papyrus scrolls from the ancient site of Herculaneum which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.Researchers have successfully generated the first image of the…
More than 1,000 books fom the Edinburgh-based T. N. Foulis publishing house will go under the hammer at Lyon & Turnbull this week.T. N. Foulis was founded in 1903, although the Foulis family had been publishers since the 18th century, and became known for its illustrated fiction, non-fiction,…
The top lot at Freeman’s | Hindman’s Printed and Manuscript Americana sale was a printed broadside of George Washington’s first Inaugural Address which soared past its $15,000 – $25,000 estimate to finally sell for $381,500. While newspaper printings of Washington…
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The Aitken Bible, the First English Bible printed in America, is among the offerings in William Reese Company's first printed catalogue issued under its new ownership by New York-based James Cummins Bookseller and London’s Peter Harrington.One of the most celebrated American Bibles, it is often…
A unique and historically important book documenting Lakota Sioux tribal history has topped Morphy’s' Western and Native American art, relics and memorabilia auction.
The Miami Design District will again host the Tropic Bound: International Biennial Artists' Book Fair next week following its succesful debut in 2023.
