The book fairs are coming!
- Marvin Getman's first Virtual Fair opens at noon EDT on Tuesday, 2 June and runs through 6 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 4 June. He's planning a fair for the first Tuesday of each month.
- The ABAA Virtual Book Fair kicks off at 10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, 4 June, and will run through 7 June.
- Firsts London's virtual Firsts Online will open at 9 a.m. EDT on Friday, 5 June.
- Haylie Swenson has a great post for the Folger's Shakespeare & Beyond blog on "Owls in the Early Modern Imagination." See also "Meet Cornelius," about the c.1625 owl-based image that's been my online avatar apparently since 2007(!).
- Aristophil sales 29–32 will be held on 16–19 June.
- From Kurt Zimmerman at American Book Collecting, a very poignant post "A Book I Shouldn't Have Yet."
- Jason Scott-Warren talked about his new book Shakespeare's First Reader with Natale Vacalebre (English starts at about 2:50).
- Arvid Nelsen has a memorial post to Colin Franklin on the Bridwell Library's site.
- Kate Ozment's article "Rationale for Feminist Bibliography" was published in Textual Cultures.
- From Chris Burgess for the Cambridge University Special Collections blog, "'I dared not dream that this dream had come true': musings on special collections in lockdown."
- New video from two BSA webinars this week: Karen Sánchez-Eppler's on juvenile marginalia, and Elaine Treharne's on medieval mise-en-page (see also the accompanying bibliography for the latter).
- Rebecca Rego Barry recaps the Christie's "Book Collecting in the Digital Age" webinar, a video of which is coming.
- Over on the N-YHS blog, "A bibliographic mystery, courtesy of Milton Halsey Thomas."
- At Early Modern Female Book Ownership, "Books owned by the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre."
- Jackie Penny writes for the AAS blog about the process of designing the exhibition catalog for the Paul Revere show Beyond Midnight.
- John Garth's The Worlds of JRR Tolkien is highlighted in the Guardian. Garth seeks to identify many of the buildings and areas that may have inspired settings in Tolkien's writings.
Upcoming Auctions
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 3 June.
- Comic Books: Pre-Code Horror, Silver Age Marvel and Undergrounds at PBA Galleries on 4 June.
- Worlds Beyond: Fine Books and Manuscripts at Christie's ends on 4 June.
- Bibliothèque Robert Beauvillain at Binoche et Giquello on 5 June.
