News, Features & Interviews
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22/10/2019Six draft pages from the original manuscript of Tolstoy's War and Peace have left Russia for the first time.The precious pages touched down in Geneva earlier this month, escorted by Tolstoy Museum Vice-Director, Nadezhda Petrova.Encased in a metal suitcase, the VIP (very important pages)...
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Peter Harrington at Frieze Masters
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8/10/2019Peter Harrington launched its latest catalogue with a fascinating ‘Drawing a Line’ exhibition at this year’s Frieze Masters on the 2nd October. Exhibiting for the second time at the London fair after last year's new exhibitor showcase, the stand doubled in size and allowed plenty of room for books...
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“Required Reading: Reimagining A Colonial Library” at the Boston Athenæum
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24/9/2019The Boston Athenæum, one of the most distinguished libraries in the US and an early Boston cultural institution founded in 1807, hosts a major exhibition showcasing and interpreting the King’s Chapel Library Collection, one of the surviving treasures of 17th century Boston.
Required Reading:...
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Backlisted: a podcast to champion great books
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10/9/2019Earlier this month the popular literary podcast, Backlisted, celebrated its 100th Episode with a discussion of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy with special guest, Philip Pullman.
The episode is delightfully light hearted and well informed as the presenters, John Mitchinson and Andy...
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Blurring the Line: Manuscripts in the Age of Print
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14/8/2019In the 15th century, with the invention of new printing technologies, a revolution swept through Europe giving rise to a rich cross-fertilization between mechanical innovation and painterly tradition. Including both printed and illuminated masterpieces, Blurring the Line: Manuscripts in the Age of... -
Captain America #1 'soars to' $915k at Heritage Auctions
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8/8/2019Heritage Auctions' Comics and Comic Art Auction (1-3 August 2019) welcomed the sale of 'one of the nicest copies ever seen' of Captain America #1.
This high grade, unrestored issue features the famous Adolf Hitler cover and the first appearance of Red Skull, Captain America and Bucky, all...
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The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect
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6/8/2019The Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture on 10 July 2019 saw Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney of Honey & Wax Booksellers and Type Punch Matrix speaking on 'The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect'.Together, Heather and Rebecca are responsible for the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize,... -
Rees-Mogg's Rotten Reviews
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5/8/2019Jacob Rees-Mogg is a British parliamentarian, well known for his strong views on Brexit and sometimes spoken of as Britain’s next Prime Minister. Earlier this year he wrote a book entitled The Victorians. The universally hostile reviews it received (from people not noted for their political views)...
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The Youngest Professional Antiquarian Booksellers in the World
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1/8/2019It’s official: the youngest professional antiquarian booksellers in the world are fifteen boys aged between ten and thirteen from Papplewick Preparatory School, Ascot England.
The Bibliomaniacs was founded in 2009 by the Papplewick director of studies, Jonathan Cooper, a former Sotheby’s man who...
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Fragments in Dublin
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1/8/2019A Symposium on Fragments (manuscript and print) will take place in University College Dublin, 17th October 2019. Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America and writer of the Manuscript Road Trip) and Christoph Flueler (University de Fribourg and Director of the Fragmentarium Project) are among...