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).

Make a note in your diary: 6pm on Tuesday 12 June 2012 - Room 261 (Senate House, second floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. All are welcome.

All the seminars will be aimed at a broad audience including book-collectors, book-dealers, historians of all kinds, librarians, indeed at anyone with an interest in collecting any sort of text from the sixth former to the retired professor. The atmosphere will be informal, as will the presentations. We hope and expect that many of the talks will be illustrated by actual examples.

They will all be held in the University of London’s Senate House Library (Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) and will run from 6.00 to 7.30 pm, usually on the second Tuesday of the month.