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Dickensian London: The Magic Lantern City is a new exhibition exploring the city which…
The Jack Kerouac Center has released new architectural renderings by Boston-based Flansburgh…
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The Book Arts Newsletter is published seven times a year at the Centre for Fine Print Research and the latest issue, edited as always by Sarah Bodman, is out now.
The theme of this year's Literary London Conference is ‘Fashioning London: Streets, Styles and Storytelling' and runs at Devon House on campus at Northeastern University London July 6–7. According to the organisers:
Thornwillow Press is setting out to make the ultimate collector's edition of E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, featuring the iconic, original illustrations by Garth Williams in the first-ever fine press limited edition of the classic story.
The four-day Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art auctions was capped by Frank Frazetta's Dark Kingdom, which sold for $6 million to become the world's most valuable comic or fantasy art.
The Folio Society has published a new limited edition of Beowulf, using Seamus Heaney’s interpretation, presented with the Old English verse.
A 14th century scientific manuscript achieved more than 22 times its estimate when it sold for $89,000 at Bonhams' June Fine Books & Manuscripts auction in New York. The 56-page illustrated manuscript on vellum written in Latin describes the construction and uses for the quadrant, a…
Hindman’s summer American Historical Ephemera & Photography auction saw passionate bidding for early photographs and material surrounding America’s westward expansion.
During routine work on papyrus fragments in the Special Collections at Graz University Library, conservator Theresa Zammit Lupi came across an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century BC. It shows evidence of sewing, indicating that it must have been part of a book in codex form.
Highlights from Jeff Weber Rare Books' latest catalogue, Masterpieces of Fore-edge Painting including:* Bible [Latinus bibliis editionis vulgatae], Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana Plantin, 1618.
A 400-year-old prayer book that once belonged to a priest who helped save the life of King Charles II has gone on public display after being bought for the nation by the National Trust.
