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The history of the recently restored Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris defined has been shaped by books, manuscripts and prints which were used for worship or study and are now on display until March 16, 2025, at the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Donna Marie Sanders, an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors age 30 and younger.
The Charles Dickens Museum opened its doors for the first time in 1925 and will be celebrating its centenary next year with Dickens in Doughty Street: 100 Years of the Charles Dickens Museum, a celebration of both the life of Dickens and of a museum which now holds the world’s most comprehensive…
Two years makes a tradition, right? As I did last year, I'll use this final post of 2024 to look back on some lots from this year that went unmentioned in my weekly preview posts and which greatly surpassed their presale estimates.
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Elena Wicker, winner of the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting prize for women collectors aged 30 and younger:Where are you from / where do you live?I am originally from Ithaca, New York and I live in Washington D.C. currently.
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has acquired a second tranche of papers of the poet Paul Durcan. Covering the period from the 1960s to the present day, the archive includes hundreds of the poet’s notebooks and folders with manuscript drafts of poems and other works, as well as annotated…
The National Library of Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Remediating Stevenson project, has unveiled a new exhibition examining the later years of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and his Pacific legacy. This free exhibition reconsiders a writer who arrived in the…
The wartime papers and drumhead wallet of an officer in the German Regiment of the Continental Army once stored on the porch of a descendant’s home and later featured on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow have been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution.
The Charles Dickens Museum has announced that its current Deputy Director, Frankie Kubicki, will become Director of the Museum in March 2025. Kubicki has been with the Museum for eight years, initially as Curator, before progressing to Senior Curator and, latterly, Deputy Director: Programmes…
A Christmassy selection for this week's Rare Book of the Week, a Bible (both Old and New Testaments) from the Oxford University Press, published around 1880, with the extra feature that it is also a handbag with folding brass handles.
