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A century after Sir James Roberts gifted Haworth Parsonage to the Brontë Society it has announced…
Of the 138 lots covering the history of science at PBA Galleries' August 28 auction are 18 related…
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Following the £1m sale in September 2023 of the first portion of treasured texts collected by William and Christopher Foyle, Dominic Winter Auctioneers will present the second portion of the Foyle Library for sale by public auction on January 31.
An exhibition exploring extraordinary materials collected by Walter and Linda Evans now in the Beinecke’s care, Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library celebrates Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Ollie Harrington, key figures of Black history, art…
Swann Galleries' auction brings works from the fringe, the avant garde and the indie for a look at the material culture of punk, rock, psych, hip hop, and jazz. An interdisciplinary sale, this auction will include posters, records, photographs, fine art, autographs, books and ephemera.…
The original draft script used by Hollywood actor Harrison Ford when he was in the UK in 1976 to play Han Solo in the first Star Wars film, is set to go under the hammer.
The cancelled working manuscript of the song Ye Jacobites by Name was written by Robert Burns in 1791 in the inflammatory early period of the French Revolution - if published, the revolutionary themes of the work might have placed him under suspicion with the authorities.Co-inciding with…
The most complete visual record of Ireland, in map and print form, ever assembled by an expert private collector has been acquired the National Library of Ireland (NLI).The Bonar Law Collection comprises close to 10,000 maps and approximately 9,000 prints, which include caricature prints and ballad…
Throughout 2024, Royal Collection Trust will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House and its remarkable library at Windsor Castle.Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, the largest and most famous dolls’ house in the world, was built between 1921 and 1924 as a gift from the nation to Queen…
The Folio Society will release the first-ever illustrated edition of the groundbreaking novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Hugo Award-winning Becky Chambers on January 25. Limited to 750 hand numbered and signed copies, it is illustrated by the award-winning Zoë van Dijk who was…
Forum Auctions is offering the original annotated typescript of John Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold which shows edits and comments by Steinbeck alongside those made by some of his editors and friends.The typescript is from the Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection and will be…
The Printing Charity has announced that Nicky Morgan, the Rt Hon the Baroness Morgan of Cotes, has accepted the charity’s invitation to hold the office of President for 2024.Baroness Morgan is a former Conservative MP and Minister, and now a member of the House of Lords. Her portfolio career has,…
