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A £250,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will ensure access to a unique historic…
The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz…
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A descendent of Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby and former UK Prime Minister, consigned an autograph album to Chiswick Auctions which has been bought for £26,000 by a private collector based overseas.The vendors were the great-great-grandchildren of the Lord Stanley, to date the longest-…
Hayward Gallery Touring will present a new exhibition of Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego taking a deep look into the literary influences that have inspired Rego’s works.
The National Archives has launched a new website Declaration250.gov to help the nation celebrate America’s 250th birthday and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
For the first time, 50 original comic book pages drawn by Morris for his Lucky Luke series will go under the hammer.The Christie's auction Morris: l’homme qui créa Lucky Luke on November 15 will focus on the work of Maurice de Bevere, better known as Morris, a key figure in the history of…
Finally, it is now possible to have a chat with the star of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as the world's first Elizabeth Bennet avatar is now up and running.
One of the world’s finest copies of the first issue of Fantastic Four has sold for $2.04 Million at Heritage Auctions's Comics & Comic Art auction.
David M. Szewczyk, bibliophile and co-proprietor of the Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company (PRB&M), has died in the course of his recovery from complications following surgery in April.
Here are the sales I'll be watching this week:
This week's we're focusing on Michigan State University's special collections librarians who have restored a 1535 edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, a rare 16thcentury cartography text which contains one of the earliest instances of the term 'America' in print.
A rare piece of Bob Dylan's creative legacy featuring unpublished handwritten religious lyrics filled with Biblical allusion and accompanied by a harmonica sold for $25,000 in RR Auction's Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.The lyrical musings penned on Ritz-Carlton New York letterhead explore…
