The final, and perhaps most critical assignment of our course was to transcribe and comprehend the diaries of author “Michael Field”, the compound pseudonym held by poets and dramatists Katherine Bradley and Edith […]
As the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s (ABAA) New York International Antiquarian Book Fair marked its 58th year, over 200 rare book collectors gathered and exhibited their manuscripts, pai […]
The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware held an unpublished letter and biographical entry by English essayist and aesthete Walter Pater (1839-1894) and bore the unofficial title of “My d […]
Amongst the John S. Mayfield Papers housed at Georgetown University exists what may be the largest private collection of Algernon Swinburne’s works. This collection includes one hundred and one first edition c […]
John W. Knott, Jr.’s Science Fiction Stall
The 58th New York Antiquarian Book Fair brought together collectors and booksellers of various disciplines, genres, time periods, and areas of interes […]
John S. Mayfield and the Swinburne Series
Located in Georgetown in Washington D.C., the Special Collections Research Center at Georgetown University is home to several special collections of rare manuscripts and […]
Theorists Deleuze and Guattari took the study of translation and language and spinned it around. What if it’s not a translator who translates the work? What if the author translated […]