News Story
While flicking through the latest Quaritch catalogue, 'The English & Anglo-French Novel 1740-1840', I spotted a footnote that took me back to my student days and I thought it was worth using this as an opportunity to highlight the importance of reference books to collectors and dealers alike.
The majority of the 120 books included in the...
News Story
This weekend would have seen the opening of the Salon International Du Livre Rare in the Grand Palais in Paris, but it is of course now postponed to September, 4th to 6th.
Hervé Valentin, President of SLAM, announced that SLAM will create a Virtual Grand Palais on the fair website, this special catalogue will launch on the 23rd April at 5pm,...
News Story
Published in our Summer issue for 2011, the obituary of Burton Weiss - the eccentric San Francisco bookseller - was written by Ian Jackson and is read here by John Windle.
If you enjoyed this Podcast, you may be interested in this profile of Burton Weiss from Curtis Faville at The Compass Rose, which includes images of ...
News Story
‘A letter from the Lazaretto’ was researched, written and is read by Sheila Markham, the librarian at the Travellers’ Club in London. This piece, which has not yet appeared in The Book Collector, looks at quarantine conditions for 19th Century travellers, including those kept in isolation at the Lazaretto in Malta, where Lord Byron carved his name...
News Story
Book dealers around the world have adapted to life in Corona quarantine. One of the projects which probably best sums up how dealers have embraced the current situation and embarked on a catalogue project across two continents is the aptly called 'At Home with Books'. A collaboration of Heather O'Donnell (New York), Ben Kinmont (California), and...
News Story
Tickets are now on sale for Spencer W Stuart's one-hour webinar, Lifecycles: Collecting and Collections, on 24 April 2020 at 5pm GMT (1pm EDT), which draws from his three-part Lifecycles program, focusing on collecting fine art and private libraries.
Lifecyles covers the complete timeline of a collector and the lifecycle of their collections....
News Story
Katherine Purcell, one of the directors of London-based jeweller Wartski, identified the enamelled plaque inlaid in the cover of the lavishly bound author’s copy of ‘Les Emaux Cloisonnés Anciens et Modernes’ by Philippe Burty (1830-1890) as a work by Alexis Falize. It features the Shinto deity Jurojin, God of Wisdom and Longevity, holding a scroll...
News Story
Another extract from our popular Polar Special Issue from Autumn 2018.
This article explores the life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who, at 24 years old, was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition.
In 1922, encouraged by his friend George Bernard Shaw, Cherry wrote his personal account of the...
News Story
Following the success of our podcast on the Hyde Collection, written by Donald and Mary Hyde and read by Kate Rooksby, we have decided to follow it up with this; the obituary of Mary Hyde, or Mary, Viscountess Eccles, as she became following her second marriage.
This obituary was written by Nicolas Barker in our Winter 2003 issue, and pays...
News Story
Maggs Bros Ltd., with Tattersall Hammarling and Silk, are proud to launch “Calligraphic Bar Code Services ™”, the ultimate inventory solution for rare-book and manuscript librarians, high-end antiquarian booksellers, and discerning private bibliophiles.
Combining cutting-edge computer technology and age-old craft skills, this product offers a...