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A handwritten set of 17th century records of prisoners at Stafford Gaol has sold for £11,000 in…
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Freeman’s | Hindman's first Western Manuscripts and Miniatures sale in Chicago on June 27 will present illuminated leaves and Books of Hours from the 13th to the 15th centuries, and showcase more than 70 lots with an estimated total value of $400,000.Gretchen Hause, Senior Vice President and…
Ruth Nelkin of Stamford, Connecticut and New York City was a collector of iconic Japanese prints, around 250 of which will go under the hammer tomorrow at Heritage Auctions featuring works by masters of the form including Katsushika Hokusai, Takahashi Hiroaki, and Yoshida Hiroshi.
Charismatic young actor Vivian MacKerrell was one of the inspirations for the eponymous central character in Withnail and I, writer-director Bruce Robinson’s 1987 cult classic. His never previously released diaries which feature vivid first-hand accounts of moments immortalised on screen including…
Going under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York's Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on June 26 are three major lots focusing on Robert Frost, A. E. Housman, and William Blake.
Lee Elias’ original art for Black Cat Mystery No. 50 has sold for $840,000 after a prolonged bidding war at Heritage Auctions' June Comics & Comic Art auction.
The Folio Society today launched a limited edition of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, illustrated by independent design studio La Boca and introduced by novelist Elif Shafak.The launch is accompanied by research from the publisher around the key themes in the novel as it relates to the…
A rare autograph musical manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven featuring his first draft for the lied Neue Liebe, neues Leben (New Love, New Life), has been sold for $225,000 at Boston-based RR Auction.
The Dublin-born novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch has been commemorated with one of English Heritage's iconic Blue Plaques.
The Morgan Library & Museum has announced three new appointments to its curatorial departments. Sheelagh Bevan is promoted to Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, Dr. Pınar Durgun joins the Morgan as Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Associate Curator of Ancient Western Asian…
Continuing Freeman’s | Hindman’s spring series of books, manuscripts, and historical ephemera sales, its Books and Manuscripts auction on June 25 will feature around 300 lots of printed Americana, literature, fishing, art, maps, prints, and more, led by English Romantic poet John Keats's…
