Interview
The Book Collector interviews Philip Palmer, co-curator of the Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, open until 4th May 2025. Philip is Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head of Literary and Historical Manuscripts.
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy is the first exhibition...
News Story
This week, we can share some great news – we have a new editor! Many of you will already know David Pearson, who has spent the last 40 or more years enjoying the rare book world, with 35 years working in various major research libraries in the UK. He started his career in Durham, and went on to the British Library, the National Art Library at the...
Interview
This week Silke Lohmann caught up with Sarah Griffin, curator at Lambeth Palace Library, to discuss her latest exhibition featuring a precious collection of rare medieval folding almanacs.
Unfolding Time is your latest exhibition, introducing us to the fascinating medieval pocket calendar. Many congratulations on putting this exhibition...
Interview
This month we have been talking to two young booksellers Rebekah Cron and Mark Baczoni, who founded Fold the Corner Books. We discuss their processes for working on their catalogues, combining both old and new.
1. Rebekah and Mark, you recently started Fold the Corner Books and have published four catalogues so far. You have both been...
It is with great sadness that we have to let you know that our much-loved editor, James Fleming, passed away last week after a sudden illness.
James took onThe Book Collectoras proprietor in 2016 and later editor in 2018, returning the publication to the Fleming fold. He loved his work and the journal with a passion and felt very much at home...
At Firsts Hong Kong this December, Peter Harrington is offering for sale the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collection of editions of Quotations from Chairman Mao, also known as the “Little Red Book”. Silke Lohmann spoke with their Asia Specialist, Dr Matt Wills, who has been cataloguing the collection over the past year, to find out how it...
News Story
How was the fair for you? Well, book collecting can be a solitary affair: our partners may think that shelves exist for other purposes. But here everyone is on our one and only wave length. There are no spouses loitering by doorways hoping to escape, or refugees from the weather. No, at book fairs like this, the punters are like kids in a candy...
Article
David Kotthoff is a collector of all things Charles Bukowski and will be selling part of his collection in Bellmans' rare book auction in December. He first came across Bukowski in Germany where he was brought up, but he then travelled the world and now lives mainly in Malaysia.
‘The day that I first came across Bukowski is a day I will never...
Interview
Silke Lohmann speaks with Leo Cadogan about their latest catalogue, Treasures.
1. Your latest catalogue, beautifully designed by the way, covers ten treasures from 1480 to 1700. What's your personal favourite?
I probably have two favourites at the moment. One is a 16th-century lawbook that an owner has assembled by putting parts of...
Interview
Peter Harrington's specialists Sammy Jay and Dr Philip W. Errington have chosen Keats's words as the title for their latest catalogue A Thing of Beauty – celebrating the art and craft of beautiful book production and exceptional private press works.
The catalogue includes several Kelmscott Press books, which are undoubtedly a high point in the...