Recent Issues

Autumn 2026 – Vol 75.3

Wynkyn de Worde’s The lyff of the faders: A Correction to Duff’s Fifteenth Century English Books John Gandy
Friends and Subtle Enemies: Some American Early Bookwomen of the 20th Century Rhiannon Knol
The Sale of the Stowe Papers to the Huntington Library (1925) Susan Finding
‘NOT RECOMMENDED’: The Archive of the Associated British Picture Corporation’s Readers’ Department Neil Pearson
Figgy Fake: The Boswell Brothers Pull a Fast One Terry Seymour
The Brotherton Gothic: Vampires in Leeds Sarah Prescott and Rachel Eckersley
The Bindings of Conrad Neidel of Wittenberg, 1538–1565 Chris Arnison
‘The Leigh Hunt Collection’ J. E. Smyth
Restored by Fate: The Author of The White Olive (1899) Henry Gott
Fuchsia Voremberg, The Markham Interviews (New Series) Sheila Markham
A Favourite Book G. Thomas Tanselle

‘Politics in Command’: Thoughts on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in Print Matt Wills
The Lost Library of John Skingle, 1623–1658 Paul Fletcher
Jane Austen’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison Azar Hussain
Newdigate Prize Poems: A Collector’s Conspectus John Maddicott
Visualising the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Simon Cooke
How the Enigma Story Was Told, Part 2 Mark Baldwin
Inscriptions and Decryptions Moray Mc Gowan
Bananas – An Ephemeral Shooting Star of the 1970s Hartley Moorhouse
Neil Adams in Conversation with Sheila Markham: The Markham Interviews (New Series) Sheila Markham
A Favourite Book Anna James

Not to Deliver the Last Word, But to Start a Conversation: The Story of The Legacy Press, Cathleen A. Baker
Three Antwerp Bindings on Scottish Books, c.1650, and Frisket Waste from the Plantin-Moretus Press, Kelsey Jackson Williams and William Zachs
A Mistaken Attribution: Mistral’s Mireille Bound by Frederick Maullen, Marianne Tidcombe
Victorian Binding Designer CB: Evidence for Charles Bayman, Bookbinders’ Tool Cutter, Jane Brown and Gregory Jones
Sealing Immortality: A Portrait of Collector Lam Cheung Chung, Huilin Chang
John Wyndham, the Uncosy Catastrophist, Philip Gooden
The Poison Bag: German (Homo)erotica in the 20th Century, Marcus Choo
Reflections of a Book Reviewer, Jeremy Black
Letter from Melbourne

From the Editor
The Rare Book Market Today: Reese Revisited II
A New Discovery from the Library of Johann Protzer (c.1470–1528) Edward Potten
‘For the Interest and Enjoyment of Future Generations’: The John Emmerson Collection at State Library Victoria Anna Welch
Frost Fair to Bartholomew Fair: A Reused Passepartout Geoffrey Day
Teaching English in Germany: School Editions of Thomson’s The Seasons and Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakeﬁeld Sandro Jung
Illustrating H. G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon and The War of the Worlds Simon Cooke
‘The Smartest Bookseller in London’: Leon Kashnor and the Museum Book Store Susan Finding
Neil Pearson, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 35 Sheila Markham
A Challenging Cypher Roger Davis
Letter from Connecticut Our Correspondent in New Haven
A Favourite Book Mark Byford