News, Features & Interviews

Our News page includes interviews with librarians, book dealers and others from the book trade, as well as details on events, announcements and developments from the literary world.

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  • Stephen Clarke lecture for The Bibliographical Society: Walpole & Lewis

    News Story

    On the evening of Tuesday 16 March 2021, The Bibliographical Society held their second meeting of the year via zoom, in which they welcomed guest speaker, Stephen Clarke, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, Chairman of Dr Johnson's House Trust and of The Beckford Society, and member of...

  • Horsham Museum - Frederick DuCane Godman

    News Story

    When you visit someone’s home, or, more appropriately these days, see them via a Zoom meeting, you are no doubt instantly drawn to their bookshelves. You might even browse through them. We all do it, not just the bibliophiles, but why? Because it helps us to understand the person better. We learn if they like to read what we like, if their...

  • Liam Sims - Interview with a Librarian

    Interview

    The Book Collector team has felt for some time that we are regularly interviewing collectors and dealers, but librarians don't often get a chance to talk about themselves. The pandemic has only highlighted their importance when it comes to securing our bibliophilic heritage and we aim to publish an interview with a librarian once a month online....

  • 2021 Virtual Book Fairs

    News Story

    A year has gone by and Covid-19 has changed everyone's life in one way or another. For businesses it has often meant hardship, but also opportunities and in the case of the antiquarian book market the lack of actual physical fairs has led to a quick uptake by dealers and fair organisers seeing an opportunity in taking fairs online. Naturally, we...

  • Rare Thomas Munn booklet at Horsham Museum

    News Story

    Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the National Libraries, Horsham Museum and Art Gallery has just acquired an incredibly rare 270-year-old booklet. The publication titled The Life of Thomas Munn, alias The Gentleman Brick-maker, alias, Tom the Smuggler  tells fascinating tales of failed gay seduction, smuggling, robbery, and a 19-year-old...

  • Literature in Love and Lockdown Valentine's Day

    News Story

    It's been almost a year for many of us since we first experienced 'Lockdown'. It has changed our lives in so many ways and now we can add a Valentine's Day without overpriced dinners and being drowned in red hearts and marketing spiel. About time we returned to love poems, hand-made cards and reading a good novel instead of watching a cheesy...

  • Inauguration Day, Bookish News

    News Story

    To mark Joe Biden’s Inauguration day we thought we’d share with you some bookish news that's surrounded the event in recent days.

     

    Tickets are Scarce

    Today’s inauguration is certainly one for the history books, partly because it will be a much smaller affair than usual.

    Traditionally members of Congress get 200,000 tickets to hand out...

  • Looking ahead to 2021

    News Story

    As 2020 draws to a close, most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. It’s been a testing year, in ways we probably never imagined.

    Whilst we know that life will not magically return to normal as the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve, here are some happy things we can look forward to in 2021:

     

    The Book Collector will be announcing...

  • Social Posturing in the Edwardian Bookplate

    News Story

    Lauren O’Hagan is one of our valuable, regular contributors. She recently completed a PHD in Language and Communication at Cardiff University and works as a research assistant for the Object Women digital archive and as a freelance translator.

    For our Winter 2020 Issue Lauren wrote ‘Social Posturing in the Edwardian Bookplate 1901–1914’ in...

  • News Story

    The Book Collector recently launched a new, improved digital archive with Exact Editions. Here our subscribers can continue to search and browse through our entire back catalogue of issues, including The Book Handbook, from 1947 – 1952.

    Our own archive will still be available to all our subscribers at www.thebookcollector.co.uk/archive...