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...
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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...
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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 ScarceToday’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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2020 has been an especially hard year for independent retailers. The new November lockdown in the UK is yet another blow to shop owners, hitting their peak sales period in the run up to Christmas.
Huge online retailers however, like Amazon.com, are booming in this crisis. One can just imagine the directors, Bezos, Olsavsky, Jassy, Reynolds,...
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In 2017 Odysseas Galinos Paparounis, a designer from Athens, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indigogo through his company Høly, for a new font design named ‘Futuracha Pro’.
He was just one of hundreds of designers looking for investment at the time, but what made this quirky font really special was that it could magically re-adjust as you...
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You may remember that the beginning of Covid lockdown saw a fair few joint catalogues appear in the rare book world. Good friends and colleagues - Ben Kinmont, Justin Croft, Heather O'Donnell and Simon Beattie - issued one of the first collegial catalogues aptly titled At Home with Books. They enjoyed the project so much that, encouraged by the...
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On the evening of the 29th January 2017, three thieves climbed onto the roof of a postal transit warehouse in Feltham, West London under cover of darkness. They bored holes through the reinforced glass-fibre skylights and rappelled down 40ft of rope, avoiding the many motion sensor alarms. The thieves then located their loot, piled it into 16...