- The DPLA has received a $999,485 grant from the IMLS to fund an expansion of the DPLA's service hubs network.
- Mozart's manuscript score of his Piano Sonata in A has been found at the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest.
- Martha Carlin writes in the TLS about a ~1643 manuscript description of Southwark which mentions Shakespeare and his contemporaries having carved their names into the panelled walls of the Tabard Inn.
- The Telegraph reports on the restoration of Mrs. Gaskell's house and gardens.
- Over at Aeon, David Armitage and Jo Guldi ask "how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view?"
- A new exhibition has launched at Harvard's Houghton Library, "InsideOUT: Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books."
- From Amanda French, "On some books in Edna St. Vincent Millay's library."
- Historian James McPherson talks books for the NYT's "By the Books" feature.
- The winners of the 2014 National Collegiate Book-Collecting Contest have been announced.
- An IMLS grant will fund the digitization of nearly 200 rare volumes from the Clark Art Institute's Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books.
- Steve Moyer has a piece in the current issue of Humanities about artist John Gould and Ralph Nicholson Ellis, Jr., whose efforts to collect Gould's works nearly bankrupted him.
- The Boston Globe highlights the coming installation of a Poe statue in Boston, and BU professor Paul Lewis' long push to get the city to recognize Poe as a native son.
- Speaking of Poe, Susan Jaffe Tane spoke to FB&C about her collection of Poe, some of which is currently on display at the Grolier Club.
- A collection of Ray Bradbury's books, art, ephemera, &c. made $493,408 at auction last week.
- Arion Press, for their one-hundredth publication, will produce a new fine-press edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
- News in June, but new to me: Bowdoin College has acquired a 328-volume collection of Sarah Wyman Whitman bindings, donated by collector Jean Paul Michaud.
- The NYT Arts Beat blog reported that some reviewers received copies of an ARC of Anthony Horowitz's new book Moriarty containing authorial back-and-forth with copy editors.
- The Royal College of Physicians will host a 2016 exhibition titled "Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee."
- Hannah Bailey guest-posts at The Junto about the importance of French archives for early American historians.
- Three 17th-century Japanese scrolls are now available digitally through the Princeton University Digital Library.
- First Folio thief Raymond Scott is back in the news after the prison where he committed suicide has come under scrutiny for not providing better mental health care. More coverage from the BBC and ChronicleLive.
- Also at The Junto, Sara Georgini provides an inside look at the process that goes into creating the Adams Papers editorial project volumes.
- From Jim Ambuske at the Scholars' Lab blog, "Visualizing Early America through MapScholar and Beyond."
- Author James Patterson plans to donate £130,000 to more than 70 independent bookshops across the UK. The funds will be used to promote programs designed to "inspire children to become lifelong readers."
- From Rare Books Digest, "Rare, Signed and Forged," in which the author lays out some suggested criteria for buying (or selling) signed books.
Reviews
- Michael Farquhar's Secret Lives of the Tsars; review by Hank Cox in the WaPo.
- Ellen T. Harris' George Friedrich Handel: A Life with Friends; review by Weston Williams in the CSM.
- S.C. Gwynne's Rebel Yell; review by Allen Guelzo in the WSJ.
- Robert Darnton's Censors at Work; review by Felipe Fernández-Armesto in the WSJ.
