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THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES IN BRITAIN
THE LIBRARY AT WALLINGTON
THE DESTRUCTION OF
THE COUNTRY HOUSE LIBRARY
THE SIEGFRIED SASSOON FELLOWSHIP
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS: 102
News and Comment
Sales, Catalogues, and Exhibitions
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The Book Collector was founded in 1952, the brainchild of three men. One was Ian Fleming, not then famous for James Bond, but a great book-collector. The second was Percy Muir, doyen of antiquarian booksellers. And there was John Hayward, author of the great Rothschild Catalogue, friend and muse of T.S.Eliot. Hayward was effectively The Book Collector's first editor and set the style - scholarly articles, timely and well-informed news and comment - that has lasted ever since. Unfamiliar authors, contemporary collectors, book-bindings, the news behind or ahead of book-sales, the ways, good and bad, of libraries, reviews of books and booksellers' catalogues, all these have been its staple, then and since. Nicolas Barker has been editor since 1965, and over forty years has given The Book Collector international authority in the world of book-collecting. The editorial board is A.S.G.Edwards, James Fergusson, Theodore Hofmann, David McKitterick and Joan Winterkorn. |
Spring 2009 Issue Contents
THE HISTORY OF LIBRARIES IN BRITAIN
THE LIBRARY AT WALLINGTON: National Trust Libraries 3
Felicity Simpson
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE LIBRARY: Sales at Dropmore and Hampton 1939
John Saumarez Smith
THE SIEGFRIED SASSOON FELLOWSHIP: Author Societies I
James Fergusson
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN BOOKBINDINGS: 102
David Knott
NEWS AND COMMENT
FROM THE ARCHIVE
SALES
CATALOGUES
EXHIBITIONS
OBITUARIES: Herbert Mitchell, Helmut Friedlander, Paul Breman,
Vivian Ridler
BOOKS RECEIVED
BOOK REVIEWS Bruce Whitemen, David Pearson, Philip W. Errington,
Nicolas Barker, Anthony Curtis, David McKitterick
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
LIST OF ADVERTISERS |
