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16/2/2024
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News, Features & Interviews
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The Importance of Books in Politics
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20/6/2023ArticleThe 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...
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70 Years of Bond
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12/4/2023The 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...
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The Kelmscott Chaucer, Press and Manor
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28/3/2023Last 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...
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Louder Than Words - Women Who Changed The World
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7/3/2023As 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, ...
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Book Collecting & Artifice in the Digital Age of Zoom
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21/2/2023The 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...
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Catalogue Interview: Gothic Imagination
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7/2/2023This 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...
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Happy Burns Night
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25/1/2023At 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...
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PMM at 60
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10/1/2023Desert 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 60th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man with a...
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Children's Books and Book Collecting
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30/11/2022Today 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...