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The Bibliographical Society has launched its own YouTube channel featuring recordings of its monthly lectures and online events. Videos are being posted regularly every month and will continue until all the lectures from 2020 onwards have been made available. A full list of the lectures is…
Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Justine Johnson, co-proprietor with Victoria Forsberg-Lary of Small Volume Books in Providence, Rhode Island.
Among the highlights at this year's Firsts London running May 16 -19 is a commode with decorative bookbinding made for the French Grand Daupin in the late 17th century.
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand annual conference 2024 will focus on the theme of the stories behind the book, including:
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America has announced the first season of the ABAA Diversity Initiative, a guided discovery program for those historically underrepresented among workers in the trade, black, indigenous, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. Designed to run…
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) is inviting booksellers, collectors, librarians, and anybody handling antiquarian material to attend its symposium Libraries, Booksellers and Collectors discuss Provenance, Restitution and the Conservation of our Written Heritage at Paris'…
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced a new multiyear agreement with Ancestry to digitize, index, and publish tens of millions of historical United States records, previously unavailable online.
At Chiswick Auctions on Tuesday, May 14, 209 lots of Books and Works on Paper, including a William Nicholson boxing illustration (£26,000–28,000); Léon de Laborde's Voyage en Orient (1837–1845), estimated at £6,000–8,000; and Amedeo Preziosi's Stamboul (1865), expected to sell for £4,000–6,000. A…
Firsts London 2024, the rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London, runs May 16 - 19 with 'The Art of the Book' as the theme for this year.The Fair will gather more than 100 international dealers who will be bringing items including bejewelled bindings, pop-up books, Japanese…
Senate House Library has acquired a rare copy of the first cheap edition of Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop from 1848, featuring 34 original Victorian pen and ink drawings.
