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As the lessons of the pandemic continue to be learnt, a new study from the University of Portsmouth and Copenhagen University has lifted a lid on the benefits readers took from novels during isolated periods of lockdown.
London - In the closing decades of the 19th century, David Bryce went from a relatively obscure publisher to a vastly successful entrepreneur almost overnight thanks entirely to the production of miniature books.
Historic Houses has announced that Chawton House has been awarded the prestigious Frances Garnham Award for Innovation in Education.
The extraordinary manuscript of George Orwell’s 1984 has been published by SP Books in a beautifully bound limited edition.
Held at the John Hay Library since 1992, the 197 remaining pages of 1984 (183 handwritten and 14 typewritten) give a unique insight into Orwell’s final secluded years in…
Austin, Texas — A credit-card-size fragment is all that survives of a manuscript scroll of the Gospel of John that was written in Greek circa A.D. 250-350. Once listed on eBay, it is now in the collection of the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. It is on view to the public…
Chicago – A rare collection of letters by notorious American gangster Al Capone achieved exceptional prices in Hindman’s November 8th-9th Fine Books & Manuscripts auction. Books and manuscripts authored and signed by presidents and world leaders from the Patrick Atkinson Collection…
The London Library is delighted to announce Helena Bonham Carter CBE as its first female President. Proposed by the Library’s Trustees, the appointment was formally confirmed by members at the Annual General Meeting on 15 November 2022, also marking the end of incumbent President, Sir Tim Rice’s…
A remarkable archive of 42 love letters by Bob Dylan to a high school sweetheart, Barbara Ann Hewitt, will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction.
London - Sotheby’s are set to offer the second tranche of one of the greatest botanical libraries, The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II. The collection comes from Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973). Unseen for 70 years, his collection charts the…
On December 1, 2022 PBA Galleries host an auction with over 450 lots of fine literature and ephemera featuring scarce works from the counterculture and the Beat Generation, Sale 777 Fine Literature - with Beats, Bukowski & the Counterculture - Rock & Other Posters, including a…
