Fine Books News: Recent

Jane Austen's House is trialling a new project offering limited opportunities for visitors to sit…
Divine Inspiration: The Legacy of the St. Francis Missal is now on view at the Walters Art Museum…
Current Events & Trends
The oldest antiquarian and secondhand bookshop in the North East of England has won the North Tyneside Business Forum Action on Climate Change business award.
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A complete collection of the books published by 19th century writer and designer William Morris from his Kelmscott Press has achieved white glove results – 100% sold – at Bonhams.
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A selection of Washington Irving manuscripts leads RR Auction's January Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale.
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Al Milgrom’s original cover art for The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 which introduced Black Cat in 1979  goes under the hammer for the first time in Heritage Auctions' January 9 -12 Comics & Comic Art sale.Milgrom, who’d previously worked on Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy…
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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.
Bright Young Collectors
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.
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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…
Current Events & Trends
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.
Bright Young Collectors
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.
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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…