- Good news in the Guardian: the T.S. Eliot estate has stepped up with a £20,000 donation to help the Brontë Parsonage Museum in their fundraising appeal.
- Leo Cadogan writes for Early Modern Female Book Ownership on a volume of Dubreuil's La perspective pratique (1663) inscribed by Lady Louisa August Greville.
- From Natalie Zacek for the Rylands Library blog, "Rylands Reflects: The Founder and the Fortune."
- Over at Bright Young Librarians, it's Erin Schreiner's turn in the spotlight.
- The Middle Temple Library has another provenance mystery for us this month.
- Rebecca Rego Barry has a Q&A with Bradford Morrow about his new novel The Forger's Daughter, a followup to his earlier The Forgers.
- From Manuscripts and More, "A Brief History of a 1474 Epitome Rarum Romanarum."
- Over on the Morgan Library blog, "Looking at Works of Art on Paper: An Overview of Examination and Imaging Techniques."
- IKEA have published a digital collection of their Swedish catalogs going back to the 1950s.
- From the Columbia RBML blog, a look at their recent project to edit their archival descriptions to identify women by their own names rather than as "Mrs. Such-and-Who."
Upcoming Auctions
- Science Books from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune, Part I at Bellmans on 15 September.
- Final Frontier: Space Exploration & Flight Through the Ages - Fact & Fiction at PBA Galleries ends on 17 September.
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 17 September.
