Jarndyce have just published their latest catalogue on Detective Fiction. It includes an impressive 356 books with prices ranging from £10 to £8,500 and covers books from 1827 to 1967, with the bulk of titles from between the 1880s through the 1910s. If you would like to receive a copy of the...
One could go mad trying to understand Christian’s actions in the days before the mutiny while accepting that the mental pressure he was under was immense. He seems to have contemplated setting himself adrift one night, to have got his affairs in order, to have torn up all his letters. Much hinged...
The society of Designer Bookbinders in holding an exhibition of recent works by its members at The Benjamin Spademan Gallery in St James's. 'UNIQUE' will run from 5th to 13th July 2024. We spoke to Stuart Brockman of James and Stuart Brockman Ltd.
Tell us a little bit about how the society...
Quaritch has recently released catalogue 1456, which is all about continental books and represents a real team effort. We speak to Alex Day, who joined Q in 2003 with an MPhil in Medieval History from Cambridge. He specialises in manuscripts from that period as well as early printed books and...
This week Silke Lohmann spoke with Bernard Shapero of Shapero Rare Books, about the upcoming catalogue 'The Pelster Collection' of approximately 50 illustrated books on birds, specifically parrots, including highlights such as Edward Lear's 'Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots'...
Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens just opened at Dimbola House on the Isle of Wight and will be open until the 19th May. The exhibition presents Dickens' story through the medium of Victorian photography, with each image brought to life in full technicolour. Originally...
By now, all of our readers will be aware that the British Library was attacked by cybercriminals in late October 2023, and that at the time of writing (early December), almost no online or electronic services have been restored. The BL catalogue is inaccessible online or on-site, as is ESTC, both...
The last few years have been rather tumultuous in UK politics. A far too regular change of prime ministers culminating in recent resignations and even the brief arrest of the former First Minister of Scotland. But the UK is not the only country where politics seems to have gone a little off-piste...
The 13th April 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of the first 007 novel. Casino Royale started it all when it was published on this day in 1953. It was the daddy of them all, Ian Fleming wrote another eleven novels and two short story collections with James Bond as its hero who gained new heights of...
Last week, London Art Week organised a talk as part of its Art History in Focus series about the Kelmscott Chaucer, Press and Manor with Dr Philip Errington of Peter Harrington's in conversation with Martin Levy, who was instrumental in fundraising the recent renovations of Kelmscott Manor. It is...