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Promotional poster for an 1895 issue of M'lle New York, featuring a woman reading a newspaper by candlelight.
February new acquisitions, including a set of ten promotional posters for the first year of M’lle New York, a downtown little magazine that ran from 1895 to 1899, inspired by the sophisticated, satirical French weeklies of the day. Check it out!
www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Feb2026...
Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!
William Reese, Honey & Wax, and Peter Harrington on the Move
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Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Stylized image of a woman reading a book, adapted from a publisher's binding, with a banner reading "Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2025."
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! Stay tuned this week for more on the fascinating winning collection and honorable mentions:
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How beautiful. 💛
Clio, the muse of history, extends an uncut quill to a warrior "saying, that it belonged to him to cut it with his sword; and if that cut well, the pen would write the better.” The moral of the story is that “it was not the writing, but men’s great actions, that rendered them immortal in history.” Wood-engraved illustration on the cover of an American schoolgirl's composition book, circa 1850.
August short list of new acquisitions at Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/August2...
Thyself how wondrous then Unspeakable who sit’st above these Heavens to us invisible or Dimly seen ✨✨✨
Flyer for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, featuring a woman reading a book.
Deadline July 1 for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on the Honey & Wax website! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
Three weeks to go: deadline July 1! Submissions open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on our website!
Hand-painted cigarette advertisement, part of an promotional concertina produced for a provincial French stationer in the 1920s.
May short list of paintings, prints, and illustration from Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/May2025...
Congratulations, Jason!
The Honey & Wax Prize 2025 poster, featuring a woman reading a book (image adapted from a vintage publisher’s binding.)
Six weeks to go: deadline July 1! Enter the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners here! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
A fifteenth-century printer at work on a handpress.
Sending you off into the weekend with a really fun e-list by my 2024-2025 ABAA mentee Maggie Erwin: Early Printers & The Modern Imagination! Contact Maggie directly to order. www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/MaggieE...
Talking bookselling with @nybooks:
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One week left to see The Morgan's ambitious Belle da Costa Greene exhibition, well worth a visit!
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Image of a woman reading a book, adapted from the publisher’s binding on an 1899 edition of Boccaccio, and the title: Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
Deadline July 1! Announcing the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the United States. If your bookshop or library or book club could use some flyers, send us your address and we’ll set you up.
Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.
Ugh. Thanks. It's a miracle no one died.
Do you know if the guy with the dog is going to be OK? I was across the street when this happened and it looked bad.
Three copies of Tom Phillips's artist's book The Heart of a Humument. At left, binding by Richard Minsky on the 1986 Talfourd Press edition. At center, the work of an unknown competition binder on the 1985 Hansjörg Mayer edition. At right, binding by Pella Erskine-Tulloch and Jane Rollo on the 1986 Talfourd Press edition.
Design binder hive mind! At the armory next week, we'll have 4 books owned by British book artist Tom Phillips, including 3 copies of his Heart of a Humument. Left + right are in signed bindings. Phillips bought the middle one from an unknown competition binder in 1988. Who bound the green copy?
Le Relieur (1965), a deluxe toy bookbinding kit for fancy French children. Boxed set contains manufacturer’s brochure, zinc plate, clamps, vial of glue (evaporated), ruler, bone folder, pencil, ribbon, paper and wooden boards, plain and patterned papers, bookbinding mull, and bookcloth in multiple colors.
February short list of art + design, from Honey & Wax:
www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Feb2025...
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The Caxton Club is pleased to support 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women aged 30 or younger. Submissions are now open. www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
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Uncut nineteenth-century box label for E.S. Curtis's Warranted Superior Blue Black Ink, printed in Boston, circa 1850.
New year, new books! 12 recent acquisitions at Honey & Wax:
www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/January...
