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Rare Book School's new exhibition Famous and Forgotten: The Game of Authors will look at the…
A fundraising campaign launched by the University of York to secure the archive of scriptwriting…
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A new study using a large-scale data set of U.S. library book circulations evaluated the impact of book bans on demand for banned books. It found that circulations of books rose after being banned, banning a book in one state leads to increases in circulation of that book in states that did not ban…
After seven years and thanks to a team of international specialists, the Florentine Codex, the most important manuscript surviving from early colonial Mexico and rich in pre-colonial Indigenous knowledge, is now available to explore online with new translations and features.
Potter & Potter's auction Lewis Carroll and Alice: The Collection of Stephen and Nancy Farber focuses on a collection put together over four decades of books, illustrations, sketches, posters, posters, and art related to Lewis Carroll's books and characters.
A fragment of John Steinbeck’s original handwritten draft of Of Mice and Men, which was eaten/destroyed by his dog Toby in 1936, has sold for $13,000, more than six times its estimate. In the same Bonhams auction, Steinbeck's wrought-iron sword which he presented to his sister Mary…
Organisers of a new exhibition to open next month at the Charles Dickens Museum are hunting for novelist Wilkie Collins' honest appraisal of his friend Charles Dickens' novels.Mutual Friends: The Adventures of Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins opens next month at the museum, Dickens' former home…
Printed Matter has announced its Sunday Zine Fair, a special day-long event held on November 19 on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s expansive survey exhibition on artists’ zines Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines. The Fair will convene more than 60 exhibitors in the…
Incline Press has launched Gifts of the Magi, a collection of new poems by Jamie McKendrick. Winner of numerous national and international writing prizes, this is their second collaboration (following the tri-lingual chapbook, The Hunters, in 2015) as they hope to mark the approaching season…
A never-before-seen photo of soldiers leaving Northern Ireland to fight in World War One and a serviceman’s diary from the trenches will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers’ WW1 Auction on November 7.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's new exhibition William Blake: Visionary features over 100 striking works by English printmaker, painter, and poet, William Blake. On view at the Getty Center through January 14, 2024, this is the first major international loan exhibition of Blake’s work on the West Coast.
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden has opened its new Global Poster Gallery, its first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of poster art and design.The museum cares for one of the world’s largest collections of 20th century graphic art and design, with around 1,000 original poster…
