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The Boston Athenæum, one of the most distinguished libraries in the US and an early Boston cultural institution founded in 1807, hosts a major exhibition showcasing and interpreting the King’s Chapel Library Collection, one of the surviving treasures of 17th century Boston.
Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library will be on public view...
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Earlier this month the popular literary podcast, Backlisted, celebrated its 100th Episode with a discussion of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy with special guest, Philip Pullman.
The episode is delightfully light hearted and well informed as the presenters, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller, sit comfortably at Pullman's kitchen table (...
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Heritage Auctions' Comics and Comic Art Auction (1-3 August 2019) welcomed the sale of 'one of the nicest copies ever seen' of Captain America #1.
This high grade, unrestored issue features the famous Adolf Hitler cover and the first appearance of Red Skull, Captain America and Bucky, all characters created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
It...
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Jacob Rees-Mogg is a British parliamentarian, well known for his strong views on Brexit and sometimes spoken of as Britain’s next Prime Minister. Earlier this year he wrote a book entitled The Victorians. The universally hostile reviews it received (from people not noted for their political views) deserve to be published as a book apart.
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It’s official: the youngest professional antiquarian booksellers in the world are fifteen boys aged between ten and thirteen from Papplewick Preparatory School, Ascot England.
The Bibliomaniacs was founded in 2009 by the Papplewick director of studies, Jonathan Cooper, a former Sotheby’s man who is also the rare book consultant at Brasenose...
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A Symposium on Fragments (manuscript and print) will take place in University College Dublin, 17th October 2019. Lisa Fagin Davis (Medieval Academy of America and writer of the Manuscript Road Trip) and Christoph Flueler (University de Fribourg and Director of the Fragmentarium Project) are among the confirmed speakers for the day.
The purpose...
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IL LIBRO DEVE MORIRE PER NASCERE A NUOVA VITA is the title of a short (ten minutes) film by Lukas Tiberio Klopfenstein.
It concerns a man (Josef Weis) composing letterpress (in either Bodoni or Antiqua) and then tightening the quoins so that the furniture and type sit firmly within the chase. While he does this, he talks to himself.
‘On the...
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