The winner of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is Darby Ronning for The Alldera…
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With this year marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Type Punch Matrix will be display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her latest book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, March 25, 210 lots of Early Printing, Americana, Exploration & Selections from the Inventory of Periodyssey.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis which was bought by the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology in Texas at the Christie's auction earlier this year of astronomer
A selection of works offered by Oxfam performed well at Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts sale with the first complete Bible in Chinese translated by John Lassar and Joshua Marshman, published serially in Serampore, starting in 1817, going for £56,280 against an estimate of £600-£800.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London is presenting a comprehensive survey of politician, author, and artist Victor Hugo’s rarely seen works on paper.Featuring around 70 artworks from important European collections, Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo follows Hugo’s preoccupation with…
A previously-unseen partial manuscript for classic French movie À Bout de Souffle will go under the hammer at Sotheby's this summer with an estimate of €400,000 – €600,000.
The British Library has confirmed a £1.1 billion new development of the Library’s St Pancras site which will create new public spaces for the British Library alongside new, globally significant capacity for commercial science, innovation and knowledge industry. The development will create an…
The Huntington Library has acquired the rare 15th century devotional print Christ on the Mount of Olives, reuniting it with the institution’s Gutenberg Bible.
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Weston Library, the home of its outstanding special collections, by unveiling a manuscript designated a 'national treasure' which has now been saved for the nation.
Is a rare book always greater than the sum of its parts? Is it a desecration to break up a copy of the world’s greatest book? Or is it democratising the book by making its historic pages more accessible to many more people than just one wealthy owner?
