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London International Antiquarian Book FairThursday to Saturday · 13-15 June 2013This major three-day event is one of the highlights in the world for book lovers and collectors – and centrepiece of London Book Fair Week. In the light and airy National Hall at Olympia, you will find thousands of rare, unusual and unique items offered for sale by 180 leading UK and international dealers. At the Fair you can view, handle and buy books, maps, prints, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera and original art work spanning the centuries, many items of museum quality. All items are freely available for inspection before purchase and in contrast to the e-book or downloaded text, here you may hold a remarkable piece of history in your hand. You can purchase a text as it first came off the printing press and bound by a craftsman hundreds of years ago - or the very latest collectable author’s first editions.
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Transatlantiques: L'épopée graphique des paquebots de légendesUntil 1 September 2013The romance of the age of sea travel saw its beginnings in the 1890s with international rivalry for the Atlantic crossing by the major countries of Europe and America building bigger, faster and more luxurious ships. The age of the cruise liner was born, the most glamorous of all forms of sea travel. The charm, romance, and excitement of the voyage was reflected in the printed ephemera produced by the shipping companies to suggest the adventure and appeal of far away places. From the humble luggage label to the magnificently designed poster this exhibition displays a plethora of ephemera that cannot fail to arouse nostalgia for those great days of sea travel.
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Remnants of Everyday Life: Historical Ephemera in the Workplace, Street, and HomeUntil 13 October 2013The Library Company of Philadelphia's current exhibition highlights its vast collection of ephemera from the 18th to the early 20th century, with materials ranging from throw-away items to finely printed works. The exhibition will address the evolution of the graphic design of ephemera; ephemera associated with women's role in the home, such as scrapbooks; the changing nature of leisure activities and consumerism over the course of the 19th century; and the life-cycle of commercial ephemera between the workplace, street, and home. Old and young, rich and poor, previous generations participated in a vibrant popular culture whose medium was printed ephemera. Remnants will exhibit broadsides, playbills, fliers, postcards, trade cards, tickets, menus, World's Fair souvenirs, labels, stereographs, albums, scrapbooks, paper dolls and other ephemeral toys and games, and advertisements. The Library Company has been collecting ephemera since 1785, when it acquired the Pierre Eugène Du Simitière collection of Revolutionary War-era pamphlets and broadsides. Today it has one of the largest, most important, and most varied collections of early American ephemera in existence.
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Propaganda: Power and Persuasion17 May - 17 September 2013What have the Olympics, Chairman Mao and matchboxes got in common? Who portrayed Margaret Thatcher as Napoleon, and why? From safe sex to dictatorships, from the iconic to the everyday this exhibition is the first to explore how different states have used propaganda during the 20th and 21st centuries, in peace-time and in war. Posters, films, cartoons and textbooks reveal the many ways in which the state tries to influence its citizens. Image:
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Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Royalty on PaperUntil 16 June 2013Images of royalty in all their splendor, designed to convey the power, majesty, and accomplishments of European monarchs and their courts from the 16th century to 1900. The exhibition highlights some 35 prints and drawings from the Museum’s collection, with select loans from private collectors. Among the works on display is Albrecht Dürer’s monumental Triumphal Chariot of the Emperor Maximilian (1522), printed on eight large sheets of paper and joined together for the first time at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Other artists represented include Goya, Jacques Louis David, and Honoré Daumier.
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Poster Art 150 – London Underground’s
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Performing Arts Book & Ephemera Fair 201316 November · 10.00 - 16.00 · Free EntrySpecialist dealers will display for sale books and ephemera including playbills, posters, autographs, programmes, prints and photographs, ballet, dance, circus, memorabilia, and much more at prices ranging from a few to several hundred pounds. Includes extra exhibitors from the Ephemera Society.
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