In The News

Western County Histories including the scarce Yolo county history from 1879, early California…
Muhammad Ali's draft card which was issued the day the Louisville Kentucky Draft Board ordered him…
News
Around 5,000 items including manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim have been acquired by the Library of Congress.
News
The Huntington will begin an extensive renovation of its Library building in spring 2026 to revitalize the Library’s exhibition halls and replace outdated back-of-house space with modern facilities serving both the Library and Art Museum.
News
The British Library has acquired the archive of pioneering Black playwright Mustapha Matura made up of 18 boxes of papers and born digital content on two hard drives and 176 floppy disks.The archive predominantly consists of literary drafts for all Matura’s plays, unpublished and unrealised scripts…
News
Leading Christie’s' Classic Week next month is Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene. Dialogo in perpuosito de la stella nuova, the first published work attributed to Galileo Galilei.
News
The J. Paul Getty Museum has been gifted 38 manuscript leaves made by Italian artists from the 12th to 17th centuries, largely for Christian choir books and depicting religious scenes mostly drawn from the lives of Jesus, Mary, and the saints.
News
More than a century after he was officially excluded, the British Library plans to symbolically reinstate the revoked Reader Pass that belonged to Oscar Wilde. 
News
The largest collection of Cassandra Austen's artwork is on display at Jane Austen's House until September.The most well known of Cassandra’s surviving art are her family portraits, including her unfinished sketch of her sister Jane. The Art of Cassandra brings together 10 of her pieces,…
News
An ornate 1636 prayer book has been restored and returned to public exhibition with the help of a pioneering archaeological facility at the University of Exeter.Embroidered with silver and gold thread and one of very few of its kind to survive, the volume is housed at the stately home of Lanhydrock…
News
The National Library of Scotland centenary celebrations continue with the opening today of a new exhibition celebrating all kinds of libraries and the books that shape us.
News
The top lot at Swann Galleries' Printed & Manuscript Americana auction included the only known letter by Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s grandmother Lydia Mack.