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Adrian Harrington Ltd is very pleased to announce that the company has bought the premises and business of Hall's Bookshop in Chapel Place, Tunbridge…

A bookplate (or ex libris) is a label placed inside a book to mark ownership. The rise of bookplates occurred concurrently with the advent of…

Open your browser, click on the OPAC catalogue of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) and search for: ILAB. The Bavarian State Library (BSB) as one of…

Good news for all book lovers: On 1st May, 2014, Sheila Markham's "Second Book of Booksellers" will be published. Sheila's "conversations with the…

Collectors of rare and antiquarian books are well aware that they must take specific measures to preserve and protect their collections. Condition…

It is a pleasure to be talking to you this evening. When Dianne and Kay generously invited me to speak to the Society, many different topics came to…

In the podcast of the University of St. Andrews researchers and library staff report about their work in the library and with the library's rich…

A wonderful story of a young collector who became an antiquarian bookseller: "I saw the documentary about its ten year renovation on television. I…

Le Syndicat de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne est né en 1914. Son ancienneté montre que la librairie a très tôt envisagé de façon collective son…

Book lovers will be busy in the upcoming weeks. From 1st to 8th April the intellectually curious meet in New York City for the Rare Book Week - the…

This week book lovers take their planes to New York to visit the 54th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, which runs…

This blog post is illustrated with some examples of engraved head- and tail-pieces I have encountered in my old books (all titles present in the…