Fairs & events

The June seminar in the new series on book-collecting organised jointly by the Institute of English Studies (London University) and the ABA Educational Trust will be given by ABA member Paul Goldman.

Apart from being a distinguished dealer in rare books, Dr Paul Goldman is Honorary Professor at the Cardiff School of English, Communication, and Philosophy; a tutor in the MA in the History of the Book at London University (as well as at the London Rare Books School), and a former Assistant Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.

His published work includes Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870 : The Heyday of Wood Engraving (1994); Victorian Illustration : The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians (second edition, 2004) – “The originality of Paul Goldman’s mind and approach is clearly evident throughout this lovingly detailed and quietly scholarly volume” –Artnewsletter.com – and Beyond Decoration : The Illustrations of John Everett Millais (2005).