A First Folio of Shakespeare’s works—one of fewer than twenty remaining in private hands, and this one with Scottish provenance dating back to the seventeenth century—sold at Sotheby’s yesterday fo
One of the pleasures of collecting Charles Dickens' books in their original, serialized parts are the colorful ads inserted at th
The tourism organization VisitScotland has decreed 2022 a “Year of Stories,” and to that end has launched a project called
In an ideal world, we all would have whatever time and money we need to construct the private libraries of our dreams.
Artistic interpretations of a classic twentieth-century English children’s story by illustrators from outside the UK are the focus of a new exhibition in the Lake District.
Quite an exciting week coming up in the sale rooms: rare maps, a First Folio, Bob Dylan lyrics, and more!
A new national archive has been launched in Manchester, preserving literary texts, artifacts, and ephemera from popular culture and the counterculture in the UK from the postwar period to the prese
The Christie's online sale First Editions, Second Thoughts, to b
Boardwalk Empire, HBO's period drama about the early days of the mob in Atlantic City, offered some of the most compelling television in 201
