Fine Books News: Recent

Highlights from PBA Galleries' August 20 Fine Press & Bindings auction include:* The Works of…
This weekly auction result is provided by Spencer W Stuart, an independent collections…
News
A ‘lost’ novel by 20th century Scottish writer and translator, Willa Muir, has been published almost 70 years after she wrote it.
Auctions
Hindman’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana auction will be held 11 May 2023 beginning at 10 am CT.
Book Fairs
Although the pandemic put a temporary halt to live book fairs, Getman’s Virtual Book and Paper Fairs have taken place monthly since the pandemic began and are continuing now that book fairs have returned.
Auctions
Phillis Wheatley’s 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first book published by an African American woman, a ‘tricky’ math problem Einstein solved for a class of high schoolers, and a Shaker manuscript hymnal are among the highlights at Bonhams’ Fine Books & Manuscripts…
Exhibit
Christie’s is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with a landmark non-selling exhibition, Shakespeare’s First Folio: The First Four Hundred Years, uniquely bringing together six copies, the largest single display of First Folios assembled in the…
Current Events & Trends
A missal owned by Fr John Huddleston, the Catholic priest who saved King Charles II's life after his defeat in the English Civil War, has been acquired by the National Trust.
Current Events & Trends
Ending on Monday, April 24, Bonhams Hong Kong's online sale The Pleasures of Living: A Single-Owner Book Collection (Part 1: Dessert Cookbooks), in 33 lots.
Events
This year's Lyell Lectures series at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford will focus on the role of amanuenses in scholarly work in early modern Europe, particularly the Northern Renaissance ca 1500–1630, while noting parallels with both earlier and later European contexts.
Current Events & Trends
Finally clocking off for the day, leaving the dark satanic cotton mills of Manchester and Lancashire behind for a few precious hours, what were the options available for workers in Victorian times and the early years of the twentieth century to lighten the gloom and grimness of the daily grind?
News
Sotheby’s is to stage a one-off Coronation Sale which brings together a range of royal letters, fine manuscripts, jewellery, artwork, and objects that reflect upon Britain’s royal past from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The full contents of the auction,  include: