This week, The Book Collector spoke to Ed Maggs, of Maggs Bros Ltd, about his latest catalogue Oscar Wilde & His Circle. This is the first of a series of catalogues from the extensive collection of Phil Cohen's fin de siècle books.
Your catalogue Oscar Wilde & His Circle is the first part of The...
Earlier this year we announced the winner of our Banquet for Bibliophiles creative writing competition. The winning entry, ‘Dining with Samuel Rogers’ by Martin Brayne has been published in our Summer 2021 issue (out now).
To coincide with the arrival of this Issue, we share below two more...
Thought lost for almost a century, the Honresfield Library was assembled with passion by self-made Victorian industrialists Alfred and William Law at the turn of the 20th century and has since been maintained with care by generations of the Law family. A unique treasury replete with cornerstones of...
We are pleased to continue our series with Mike Widener. It was our final chance to interview the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s rare book librarian before his retirement at the end of last month, after 15 years at Yale. He will, however, remain very much involved in the Rare Book School course, “...
This summer's Firsts Online features talks with The Book Collector and Stephen Fry picks his Fair favourites
We are delighted to announce that we have worked with the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA) on some online talks for this summer's Firsts Online programming schedule to coincide...
Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books, based in Stockholm, Sweden is well-known among antiquarian booksellers. Charlotte specialises in books on Voyages & Travels, Exploration and Linguistics, with a primary emphasis on Asia and Africa, as well as Asian and international illustrated books on fashion,...
We continue our series of interviews with librarians with Katie Birkwood who has been the rare books and special collections librarian at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) since 2012. She cares for approximately 20,000 rare books assembled over the RCP’s 500-year history, spanning medicine and...
There are many avenues by which western culture speaks to our deepest emotions. Each of these ends up in print form one way or another and therefore among the wares of a bookseller. But how often do you find a collection of them, as in a catalogue, exerting the same raw tug as an individual text?...
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...
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...