Another really excellent Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair last weekend! Up next are Rare Books LAX (5–6 October) and the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair (12–13 October), but my next fair will be Boston (15–17 November).
- From Sean Redmond for the NYPL blog, an important and useful post: "Historical Copyright Records and Transparency." See also Karl Bode's post for Vice about this project.
- Jason Scott-Warren proposes on the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts blog that the Free Library Philadelphia's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio may contain manuscript annotations by John Milton. He draws on recent analysis of the annotations by Claire M.L. Bourne in her article "Vide Supplementum: Early Modern Collation as Play-Reading in the First Folio," in Early Modern English Marginalia (Routledge, 2019). Claire has posted on this now, in "With(out) Milton: Dating the Annotations in the Free Library of Philadelphia's First Folio."
- The winners of the 2019 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize have been announced, and they are typically impressive. Well done to all!
- Opening this week at the Boston Athenaeum, "Required Reading: Reimagining a Colonial Library."
- In the LA Review of Books, Seth Perlow asks "Who Gets Emily Dickinson?"
- The Junto has a Q&A with Joseph Adelman about his recent book Revolutionary Networks.
- Over at Echoes from the Vault, "Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages."
- Rich Rennicks highlights Ben Kinmont's Antinomian Press on the ABAA blog.
- Rebecca Rego Barry notes on the FB&C blog that a funding drive is ongoing to keep a collection of Charles Lyell notebooks in the UK. More than £200,000 must still be raised before 15 October.
- From Stephen Grant at The Collation, "Emily Jordan Folger's Deltiological Profile."
- RBM is looking for a reviews editor: applications are due before 30 November.
Review
- Joseph Adelman's Revolutionary Networks; review by Jordan E. Taylor at The Junto.
Upcoming Auctions
- The Air and Space Sale at Bonhams New York on 17 September.
- Cartography – Americana – Exploration – Voyages: The Warren Heckrotte and Margaret Gee Collection (with additions) at PBA Galleries on 19 September.
- The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer: Books and Autographs and Books, Maps & Manuscripts at Freeman's on 19 September.
- The David and Janice Frent Collection of Presidential & Political Americana, Part VI at Heritage Auctions on 21–22 September.
