Recent Issues

Summer 2026 – Vol 75.2

‘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

From the Editor
The Rare Book Market Today: Reese Revisited
An Aldus Manutius Junior Myth Dismissed Paul Needham
A John Owen Collection: Material for a Bibliography Nicholas Poole-Wilson
‘Pictures and Conversations’: The Jon A. Lindseth Lewis Carroll Collection at Christ Church Oxford Gabriel Sewell
Illustrating Wordsworth: Norah Neilson Gray’s Intimations of Immortality Peter Dale and Brandon Yen
The Personal Library of Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) Philip S. Palmer
Extraterrestrial Christians Paul McGrane
Jonathan Hill, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 34 Sheila Markham
Byron’s Lost Pages: Fiction, Forgery and the Rare Book Trade Adam Douglas
A Favourite Book Anthony Davis