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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…
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…
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…
A unique and historically important book documenting Lakota Sioux tribal history has topped Morphy’s' Western and Native American art, relics and memorabilia auction.
Chicago-based Barrovian Books is launching its Artist Series, a collection of limited edition books featuring work from local artists. The studio, which specializes in handmade journals and notebooks, will incorporate original artwork into their signature hand-bound books.
Leading the auction results at Christie’s' latest Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts sale was Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova which went for $327,600.
Illustrated manuscripts, groundbreaking photographers, and America's unauthorized editions of Jane Austen feature in The Morgan Library & Museum's upcoming exhibitions in 2025 and 2026.
Rare Books San Francisco will return later this week with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen a key element in its latest iteration.
The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home will tell the story of the advent of radio in the UK, placing listeners rather than broadcasters at its heart.
Significant works by Oscar Wilde, Ronald Firbank, and Aubrey Beardsley lead Christie’s' Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection auction on February 13 which reveals the literary tastes of the Australian performer famed for his characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
