The Book Collector team has felt for some time that we are regularly interviewing collectors and dealers, but librarians don't often get a chance to talk about themselves. The pandemic has only highlighted their importance when it comes to securing our bibliophilic heritage and we aim to publish an...
A year has gone by and Covid-19 has changed everyone's life in one way or another. For businesses it has often meant hardship, but also opportunities and in the case of the antiquarian book market the lack of actual physical fairs has led to a quick uptake by dealers and fair organisers seeing an...
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...
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...
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.
Today’s inauguration is certainly one for the history books, partly because it will be a much smaller affair than usual.
Traditionally members of...
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:
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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...
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...
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...
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...