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News and happenings from the book collecting world.
The Importance of Books in Politics
20th June, 2023
The last few years have been rather tumultuous in UK politics. A far too regular change of prime ministers culminating in recent resignations and even the brief arrest of the…
70 Years of Bond
12th April, 2023
The 13th April 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the first 007 novel. Casino Royale started it all when it was published on this day in 1953. It was the daddy of…
The Kelmscott Chaucer Press and Manor
28th March, 2023
Last week, London Art Week organised a talk as part of its Art History in Focus series about the Kelmscott Chaucer, Press and Manor with Dr Philip Errington of Peter Harrington’s in…
Louder Than Words – Women Who Changed The World
7th March, 2023
As the follow up to Peter Harrington’s first women’s catalogue, Louder Than Words is really a celebration of achievements by women in all fields. It is difficult to pick out favourites or…
Book Collecting & Artifice in the Digital Age of Zoom
21st February, 2023
The recent pandemic seems to have changed the way people think about book collections, so many having been forced to use internet platforms like Skype and Zoom for work. This…
Catalogue Interview: Gothic Imagination
7th February, 2023
This week, we talked to Bonny Beaumont about her recent Gothic catalogue for Maggs Bros. ‘The Gothic Imagination’ is a collection of Gothic and Romantic literature from the library of Richard Franklin, supplemented with…
Happy Burns Night
25th January, 2023
At the beginning of this year we read a fascinating article in the Daily Telegraph about how a collector saved a rare Robert Burns book after spotting a barber using it to…
PMM at 60
10th January, 2023
Desert Island discs, the long running radio programme, asks its interviewees “what book would you take to your desert island,” along with seven records. Later this year, The Book Collector will be…
Children’s Books and Book Collecting
30th November, 2022
Today is St Andrew’s Day, celebrated not just in Scotland, but all over the world and very much an indication that the Festive Season is upon us. With it comes…
175 Years of Quaritch
16th November, 2022
When Quaritch turned 150 in 1997, The Book Collector published a 212-page special issue, guest edited by Richard Linenthal, which came out as an extra issue between the Autumn and Winter issue……
Frieze: Booksellers Mixing with the Art World
19th October, 2022
Last week was Frieze Week in London – well known for the flagship contemporary art fair organised by the Frieze team (who have created similar fairs in New York, LA and Seoul), but…
Early printed books at Swann, featuring Part II of the Ken Rapoport Collection
4th October, 2022
Swann Galleries in New York will hold an Early Printed Books sale on Thursday 13th October that will include works from the Early Modern/Enlightenment period, starting with the Manny Coleman Collection,…