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The German composer Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) is best known for his opera "Hänsel und Gretel". He began working on it in Frankfurt in 1890.…

William S. Kundig had been the first president of the Swiss Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (VEBUKU), founded in 1939. Nine years later he also…

For thirty five years bookseller David Batterham has been making buying trips abroad and describing his adventures in letters to artist Howard…

"The business of dealing in books in not compatible with quick profits on turnover. The most successful dealers are not those who buy books which…

"Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes.…

Do you remember Abacis? It was one of the first attempts in the early days of the Internet to establish an online database for rare books. "Abacis…

"Two of the oldest libraries in Europe will join forces in an innovative approach to digitization driven by the actual needs of scholars and…

From manuscripts to avant-garde, from medieval psalm books with magnificent illuminations to handwritten letters by artists and writers like Picasso…

"I love working in book shops", Jen Campbell says. "They attract especially strange comments and requests." Over the years she has written down all…

The British Library announces a most spectacular new acquisition: The Library has bought the St Cuthbert Gospel, which is known as the oldest…

A colleague approached me on the floor of the New York Book Fair and asked if I'd composed this week's blog yet. I told him I had not. He kindly…

I didn't take any pictures at the New York Book Fair this year. I'm not much of a picture taker in the most relaxed of times, but at any given book…