Book Affair
Behind every great book collection is a good love story. This weekend’s 45th Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center includes a lot of books as well as a special exhibition: “A Love Affair with Books: Personal Stories of Noted Collectors.”
The Worlds of Olive Percival
Recently, KCET Departures published a series of essays about Olive Percival (1869–1945), an artist, bibliophile, art collector, suffragist, and passionate gardener who lived along the Arroyo. The Huntington Library houses part of the Olive Percival archive, which includes unpublished manuscripts, her diaries, and more than 700 photographs.
Prelude to the Dragon
In the upcoming celebrations marking the Year of the Dragon, it will be tempting to focus all of your attention on the spectacle of the crowd-pleasing dragon dancers, but you won’t want to overlook the many other activities designed to showcase the traditional arts and culture of China.
Visit The Huntington at the Festival of Books
For the 16th year, the Huntington Library Press will represent The Huntington at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This year, the festival moves from its usual venue at UCLA to the USC campus.
A Big Page-Turner
On Tuesday, Sotheby’s auctioned off a copy of John James Audubon’s monumental Birds of America, breaking the record for the highest winning bid for a published book. Aside from the $10.2 million price tag, everything else about the book is big.
Time Travel at the Huntington Library Press
This month at the Huntington Library Press, we have been time travelers. We began in the distant past, doing the last proofreading on a special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly devoted to what people read, mostly in England, in the 16th and 17th centuries, including cookbooks. The articles in the issue looked at various forms of commentary: what people wrote about their reading—sometimes directly in the margins of books, but often in what are called commonplace books, notebooks made up in this case of literary quotations and comment.
