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For three days in May (22nd to 24th) the airy halls of Olympia will once again play host to the London International Antiquarian Book Fair. Now in…

Wood engraving was derided for decades by many artists as merely a "reproductive technique," since the design of a wood engraving and the actual…

The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 was a decisive event in the world of book collecting. Numerous dealers and collectors – among them the most…

Although perhaps largely forgotten now, Giambattista Casti (1724–1803), Salieri's favoured librettist in Vienna in the 1780s, was notorious in his…

No one has ever compiled a complete catalogue of all of the world's reference books, and the task won't be easy. Not all the world's libraries have…

It is with great pleasure that the Danish Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABF) will host the Scandinavian Antiquarian Book Fair from 6th to 8th…

If you're new to the world of book collecting, you've undoubtedly encountered plenty of jargon already. Rare and antiquarian book dealers often…

Sarah Wyman Whitman was a gifted painter who was also a prominent hostess to Boston culture, married to a prosperous wool merchant. She was a student…

Moshe Prigan is an accomplished book collector, freelance writer, and retired teacher of art and history. He lives in Haifa, Israel but searches…

"Last week a group of Melbourne bibliophiles were treated to a delightful talk by preeminent bookman Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector…

As there were nine muses in Ancient Greece, Sally O'Reilly portrays nine examples of notable literary muses throughout history for the Huffington…

In mid-April the Austrian antiquarian bookseller Norbert Donhofer was elected ILAB President. In an interview with Bettina Führer he talks about…