Swann’s Focus on Women auction, scheduled for June 1st, pulls together an eclectic set of material representin…
A period hand-colored edition of Tasso’s La Gieursalemme Libertata features extraordinary work, with full-page…
From the Collection of Ken Rapoport Related Reading William Shakespeare Shakespeare makes several appearances in the…
In this year’s Focus on Women sale, we are pleased to offer several interesting epistolary novels written by women. …
Celebrating Black Women This year’s Focus On Women sale contains the work of a number of significant Black wom…
The Collection of Ken Rapoport Swann is also pleased to offer a book from the library of bibliophile Jean Grolier, b…
This past summer Swann held its first auction devoted to works by women. We are pleased to annouce another edition o…
When I was an undergraduate, I only knew George Parker Winship’s name because of the series of lectures delivered in…
Ahead of Swann’s first auction dedicated to the accomplishments of women on July 15, senior specialist and cur…
Bibliographers, cataloguers, and scholars rely upon the veracity of a book’s imprint—that is, the publication inform…
What Goes Around Comes Around Devon Eastland shares the joys of handling early printed books and how sometimes unexp…
Any experienced cataloger, scholar, collector, or reader of early printing is accustomed to discovering an array of …
