As the follow up to Peter Harrington's first women's catalogue, Louder Than Words is really a celebration of achievements by women in all fields. It is difficult to pick out favourites or the 'most important', because in their way they are all important. So we reached out to catalogue creators, ...

The recent pandemic seems to have changed the way people think about book collections, so many having been forced to use internet platforms like Skype and Zoom for work. This is a trend that appears to be here to stay. Closely associated is the way people react to the bookcases, or appearance of...

This week, we talked to Bonny Beaumont about her recent Gothic catalogue for Maggs Bros. 'The Gothic Imagination' is a collection of Gothic and Romantic literature from the library of Richard Franklin, supplemented with recent additions to stock. The collection represents a broad understanding of...

At the beginning of this year we read a fascinating article in the Daily Telegraph about how a collector saved a rare Robert Burns book after spotting a barber using it to clean razors. We were relieved to read that this didn't happen 'the other day' but some time in the 1880s.

The book was rescued...

Desert Island discs, the long running radio programme, asks its interviewees "what book would you take to your desert island,” along with seven records. Later this year, The Book Collector will be celebrating the 60^th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man with a...

Today is St Andrew's Day, celebrated not just in Scotland, but all over the world and very much an indication that the Festive Season is upon us. With it comes the search for the perfect gifts for our loved ones. Shapero puts it so nicely on their website: "For those looking to buy Rare Children's...

When Quaritch turned 150 in 1997, The Book Collector published a 212-page special issue, guest edited by Richard Linenthal, which came out as an extra issue between the Autumn and Winter issue… those were the days when postage and printing costs allowed for such celebrations.

Last month Quaritch...

Last week was Frieze Week in London - well known for the flagship contemporary art fair organised by the Frieze team (who have created similar fairs in New York, LA and Seoul), but in London the fair also has a satellite called Frieze Masters, which hosts dealers showing art pieces ranging from...

Swann Galleries in New York will hold an Early Printed Books sale on Thursday 13th October that will include works from the Early Modern/Enlightenment period, starting with the Manny Coleman Collection, as well as publications on economics, science, medicine and travel, and will feature part two of...