During the course of my research into women and prostitution in Paris after the French Revolution, I became aware that a large number of synonyms for “prostituée” existed and that not only were they colorful, often bawdy and sometimes charming, but also, their number was vast. I began to compile a list of such words, and when it reached four...
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Firsts - London’s Rare Book Fair, presented by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, has announced that the Official Fair Partner this year is international online rare bookseller Biblio. The ABA’s annual flagship event will open its doors to visitors from 7 – 9 June in beautiful Battersea Park. More than 150 exhibitors from around the world...
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West Dean College of Arts and Conservation will be holding a series of courses devoted to The Preservation and collection care for libraries. For the 5th year, the college is collaborating with the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom and the second largest library in the world.
These fascinating courses are for...
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The 59th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair will see over 200 dealers from the US and abroad gathering at the Park Avenue Armory from 7th to 10th March. The usual mix of rare books, ephemera, maps etc. will fill the exhibition space with an eclectic mix including an exceptional collection of original logbooks from whaling ships...
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Universities in USA started the trend in the 1930s with the A. Edward Newton Student Book Collecting Competition at Swarthmore College; the first endowed, and longest-running book collecting prize. The number of prizes picked up in the 1960s. Fifty years later, Book Collecting competitions finally arrived in England with the Rose Book Collecting...
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The Book Collector is using our Spring 2019 issue to celebrate Women: women writers, women collectors and women readers. This month’s online article looks at women readers through the eyes of Holbrook Jackson; the Fabian Socialist, writer and journalist who in the 1930s wrote an article for Book Collectors Quarterly titled; The Digression of Women...
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Winter 2018, Bibliographic Notes and Queries, Query 528: An Engraved Title-Page for Noel van Barlement, Dictionariolum et colloquia, 1662.
A recent article on Noel Van Barlement and his Colloquia et dictionariolum carried an illustration of the engraved title-page to the 1632 Amsterdam edition, one of two such editions.1 The other engraved...