The Terms of The Trade - Roger Gaskell
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People, Prints and Progress – Or, Why are Prints Important?
By Jasper Jennings
First, the basics: a print is a repeatable image ....
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The Galsworthy Bubble and other Freaks of Fashion
(The text of a talk given under the auspices of the London University Institute of English Studi....
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The Serio-Comic Mapmaker Fred W. Rose
Fred W. Rose (1849-1915) stands out as the most influential figure in the design and authorship of t....
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The Private Libraries Association
We are an international association of book collectors, founded in 1956, of people who love and coll....
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McKnight Kauffer - The Picasso of Dust-Jacket Design
He brought poster, advertising, and dust-jacket design out of the nineteenth century and into the tw....
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Instructional Videos from the Centre for the History of the Book
The Centre for the History of the Book (University of Edinburgh) has produced a serie....
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The Grolier Club Videos
The object of the Grolier Club (to quote from its Constitution) is “to foster the study, co....
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Algorithmic Book Pricing and its Implications
The issue of algorithmic pricing recently surfaced in one of the ABA email Bulletins. It came in ....
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Masters Courses in the History of the Book
The MA/MRes Masters Courses in the History of the Book are organised by the Institute of English Stu....
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An Enquiry into the Nature: Aloes Books and the Pynchon “Piracies”
It was seeing one of our American colleagues recently describing them as “a group of bootlegge....
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From ILAB: the one stop FREE App for all lovers of rare books!
The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) has launched an ILAB Mobile App which is ....
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Ten Reasons to Buy from an ILAB Dealer
1. High Standards
Individual bookseller members are admitted to their nation....
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Portrait of a lady?
I have collected many “things” over the years, often unconsciously. An assemblage of mez....
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Author Bibliographies
The following list of author bibliographies was originally developed for the Modern Firs....
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Olympia Book Fair Movie 2011
Over 160 antiquarian booksellers as well as private presses, bookbinders and other affiliated tra....
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A Repricing Saga
The Internet has had a dramatic effect on the prices and availability of antiquarian books. This ....
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Traditional British Book Sizes
British printing paper sizes and their nomenclature have varied over time. Not all authorities ....
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1895 – La Fin des Livres?
She’s relaxing on the sofa with her headphones on; her friend is listening to a novel. Betw....
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