- Emily Wells writes for Past Is Present about the continuing work on transforming the AAS Printers' File into a linked open data resource.
- Over at The Collation, Meaghan Brown posts about assigning genres to early modern plays for the Folger's Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama.
- Barbara Basbanes Richter reports for the Fine Books Blog on the Met's recent symposium on American publishers' bookbindings.
- The Bodleian Library announced their purchases from last December's Pirie sale.
- Denis Joachim's major collection of rare books, art, and photographs will be sold over three days in Melbourne (19–21 June).
- A single buyer purchased all four Shakespeare folios (not, as the Press Association piece says, Shakespeare's "first four books") on the block at Christie's this week, for just under £2.5 million.
- Scott Reyburn reports for the NYTimes on another Christie's sale from this week: that of some thirty medieval manuscripts from the collection of Maurice Burrus.
- In the Dublin Inquirer, Louisa McGrath highlights the manuscript diary of the first Keeper of Marsh's Library.
- A new twist to the adult coloring book trend: Alison Flood writes for the Guardian about the coming republication of a series of 17th-century maps originally issued to accompany Michael Drayton's Poly-Obion.
- T.S. Eliot's rejection letter for Animal Farm has been making the rounds this week: it was among the items selected for the British Library's Discovering Literature: 20th Century online collection.
Reviews
- Denis Boyle's Everything Explained That Is Explainable; review by Michael Dirda in the WaPo.
- Jill Lepore's Joe Gould's Teeth; review by Karen Long in the LATimes.
- Jack Lynch's You Could Look it Up; review by Peter Thoneman in the TLS.
- Julie Fenster's Jefferson's America; review by Karin Altenberg in the WSJ.
- Matt Kirschenbaum's Track Changes; review by John Gilbey in the THE.
