A warning: timing on these posts may be wonky for the next month or so, as I've got a heavy travel schedule; I'll try to keep up with things and will post when I can.
- Oak Knoll Fest XIX this past weekend seemed a grand success: excellent panel discussions and lectures, a very well-attended fine press showcase, and some unbeatable sales at Oak Knoll Books. I know I'm not alone in looking forward to the next one!
- The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair is coming up this weekend, and the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held from 28 to 30 October.
- The ABAA reports the theft of "a number of maps and prints focused on Arctic Exploration, Ethnography, and Circumpolar Navigation" from Juneau, Alaska.
- Christopher de Hamel's Guardian piece about the potential identification of a psalter as once belonging to St. Thomas Becket is a must-read.
- From Eureka Books, a good rundown of the consequences of a new California law governing the sale of autographed books and artwork.
- Jay Moschella writes for the BPL's Collections of Distinction blog about a forged Shakespeare signature. Also see his previous post on the 1598 Richard II quarto.
- From Don Skemer at Princeton, an overview of the library's holdings of William Henry Ireland's Shakespeare forgeries.
- John Lancaster posted on ExLibris on behalf of Elly Cockx-Indestege, who is looking for books from the collection of the 8th Duke of Arenberg. See the post for images of the relevant provenance marks.
- There's a survey (open until 1 November) asking "What I Did Not Learn in Library School" - if it applies, you might consider helping out the researchers. See this post for more details.
- A new exhibition at Trinity College's Watkinson Library celebrates the library's 150th anniversary.
- The catalog of Yale Law Library's current exhibition, "Representing the Law in the Most Serene Republic: Images of Authority from Renaissance Venice" is now available as a PDF, and a selection of photos from the show are up on Flickr.
- Sotheby's posts about a Lewis Carroll manuscript coming up for sale later this month which includes a list of friends the author intended to receive copies of his 1890 work The Nursery of Alice.
- October's Rare Books Monthly articles are up: they include a profile of bookseller Kurt Sanftleben.
- Lew Jaffe has posted a number of interesting bookplates he's willing to exchange for others not currently represented in his collection.
- AbeBooks.com has introduced a new "Collections" section, themed lists curated by member booksellers.
- See a video about the University of Iowa Center for the Book's attempt to make 2,000 sheets of chancery paper in a single day
- Rich Rennicks posts for The New Antiquarian about the "wordless novels" of Lynd Ward.
- Over at The Junto, Joe Adelman proposes a massive but very useful resource on how the Bible was used and interpreted in early America.
- A major Poe exhibition opens this week at John Hopkins' Peabody Library.
- Sarah Werner posts on "researching while unaffiliated."
- Heywood Hill is running a Library Lifetime Prize Draw: tell them the book that has meant the most to you, and you could win a book a month, for life!
- Christie's profiles Glenn Horowitz.
- Christopher Minty talks to Carolle Morini of the Boston Athenaeum at The Junto.
- For their "Mystery Monday" post, the folks at the Provenance Online Project have a monogram bookplate for us to puzzle out.
- Lisa Fagin Davis posts on Manuscript Road Trip about the ongoing Beyond Words exhibition in Boston. More on this on the Fine Books Blog.
- There's a Vandercook SP-20 that could be yours ... and Josef Beery has developed a new tabletop letterpress, the Book Beetle (see the video).
- A new exhibition at the V&A explores David Garrick as a book collector.
Reviews
- Krista Halverson's Shakespeare and Company, Paris; review in The Economist.
- Elizabeth Yale's Sociable Knowledge; review by Katherine Walker for the British Society for Literature and Science.
- Ruth Franklin's Shirley Jackson; reviews by Elaine Showalter in the WaPo and Scott Bradfield in the LATimes.
- Mark Kurlansky's Paper and Keith Houston's The Book; review by Dennis Duncan in the TLS.
