Sunday, April 07, 2019

Links & Reviews

- Over at Sammelband, Kate Ozment on "Why it Matters: Teaching Women Bibliographers," which includes the full texts of the excellent daily Women's History Month Profiles posted during March.

- From Heather Wolfe at The Collation, "Uncancelling the cancelled: recovering obliterated owners of old books."

- The Lilly Library will undergo a $10.9 million renovation thanks to a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

- The British Library has acquired a tenth-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript leaf, from the estate of Stephen Keynes.

- Terena Bell writes for the Guardian about Alan Gribben's study of Mark Twain's library and reading habits.

- Jim Dwyer wrote for the NYTimes about a recent last-minute rescue of some historical bank records in New York City.

- Jessica Leigh Hester has a piece in Atlas Obscura about miniature almanacs, based largely on the miniature books exhibition now on at the Grolier Club.

Reviews

- Stuart Kells' Shakespeare's Library and Margaret Leslie Davis' The Lost Gutenberg; review by Rebecca Rego Barry on the Fine Books Blog.

- Leo Damrosch's The Club; review by Lyndall Gordon in the NYTimes.

- David Blight's Frederick Douglass; review by Manisha Sinha in the TLS.

Upcoming Auctions

- Printed Books & Maps; Travel & Exploration; Geology & Charles Darwin at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 10 April.

- Vintage Cameras & Photographs; Autographs, Stamps & Ephemera; Bookbinding Equipment & Accessories at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 11 April.

- Atlas – Cartes – Livres de Voyages at ALDE on 12 April.