Sunday, August 20, 2017

Links & Reviews

- Over at American Book Collecting, a transcription of an unpublished account of antiquarian bookselling in the early 1880s by Isaac Mendoza, plus some background info. Very much worth a read, and many thanks to Kurt for posting it.

- Cécilia Duminuco posts for the Cambridge University Library Special Collections Blog on "Conserving Darwin's Library and its curiosities."

- Some early illustrated editions of Robinson Crusoe are highlighted on the Princeton Graphic Arts Collection blog.

- One theft report from the ABAA to pass along.

- An urgent appeal has been launched to save John Milton's cottage.

- Benjamin Park talks to Carla Gardina Pestana about her new book The English Conquest of Jamaica at The Junto.

- The APHA blog posts a query about print industry statistics; if you can help the researcher, please do.

- Pegasus Books has published Bibliomysteries, a collection of commissioned original stories edited by Otto Penzler.

- There's a lovely "In Memoriam" post on the ABAA blog for bookseller Jack Hanrahan.

- On the LC blog, "A Different Sense of Thomas Jefferson's Library."

- Susan Halpert writes about "A Curious Manuscript" for the Houghton Library Blog.

- David Barnett writes for the Independent about the upcoming sale of the KoKo collection at Heritage Auctions.

Reviews

- Carla Gardina Pestana's The English Conquest of Jamaica; review by Casey Schmitt at The Junto.

- Rebecca Romney and J.P. Romney's Printer's Error; review by John Paul at popmatters.

- Margaret Willes' The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn; review by Frances Wilson in the Spectator.

- Walter Stahr's Stanton; review by Thomas Mallon in the NYTimes.

- Mattias Boström's From Holmes to Sherlock; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.

Upcoming Auctions

- Miniature Books: The Library of a Gentleman Collector at PBA Galleries on 24 August.

- Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera at Addison & Sarova on 26 August.