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...
The Book Collector is the leading English-language journal for encouraging, supporting and informing all kinds of book collecting. Its quarterly issues uphold the standards of design and content which have graced bookshelves since its foundation in 1952. Today it is also available online, with a fully digitised archive and a free e-newsletter.
Alongside articles on the writing, publishing and collecting of books we carry news about sales and catalogues, book reviews, obituaries, and interviews with collectors and dealers. Our News and Comment pages have long been valued as a quarry for information on people and events in the book world.
Current Issue
Summer 2025 - Vol 74.2
- The Next Chapter David Pearson
- Chelsea Physic Garden: Books in Bloom Rosalind Lintott
- ‘Other Properties’: Collecting and Collaboration in the Trade in Medieval Manuscripts in London c1880–1920 Laura Cleaver
- Springhill: National Trust Libraries No. 12 Edwina Penge
- Cruden’s Concordance and the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Cruden Stephen Clarke
- Baskerville at the Cadbury Research Library and the ‘Great Baskerville Bible Crisis of 2020’ Caroline Archer-Parré and Martin Killeen
- Her Book: A Passage Through Five Generations of American Women Jeremy Dibbell
- Preserving History in Copper: Richard Rawlinson’s Collection of Printing Plates Chiara Betti
- Wilde About Thornton’s Huon Mallalieu
- Toni Morrison’s List at Random House: A Special Collection Awaiting Recognition Tessa Roynon
- Profile of a Collector: Stuart Rose Michael P. Kuczynski
- Lost Friends, Part 12 Brian Alderson
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Sheila Markham Interviewed Serge Plantureux in June 1994.
There are various versions of how I got started in bookselling. The one I choose today goes...
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The Society of Antiquaries of London is well-known to bibliophiles, regularly hosting meetings and offering access to a rather remarkable library in Burlington...
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‘I sold my first book in 1914 when I was eight years old. After school, I went to work for my father in Porchester Road. It never occurred to me to do anything...
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We like the sound of the Cecil Beaton catalogue Beaux Books are launching at Firsts London this year and have talked to Clare Trimming about it.
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Recent Acquisitions: English, American & Continental Law 1502–1925 - 30 Items
The Lawbook Exchange Ltd.
Date uploaded: 12/5/2025
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Firsts. London's Rare Book Fair. A short list of highlights
Voewood Rare Books
Date uploaded: 12/5/2025
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Catalogue 68- Rare books on Travel, Japan, Illustrated and Fashion
Charlotte du Rietz Rare Books
Date uploaded: 9/5/2025
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Firsts London 2025
Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Date uploaded: 8/5/2025