I am heading out to California this weekend for Rare Books San Francisco – a new book fair in the heart of San Francisco – details here
From the 9th to the 12th I will be exhibition at the 55th Californian Antiquarian Book in Pasadena – details here
If you are in the area I would love to see you there – otherwise a fully illustrated catalogue of what will be with on show is available here
360 YEARS OF BOOKBINDING
We are opening a joint bookbinding exhibition with Benjamin Spademan until the end of February 2023
at 14, Mason’s Yard, London SW1 6BU
To view the catalogue click here
If you would like to see the show, please call on 07909 963836
This weekend we are exhibiting at the 44th Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, showing some exciting new stock including Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves and Golden Cockerel Press books including excellent copies the three great Gill and Gibbings books – ie Troilus & Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels.
We have some fine bindings on view – see the wonderful De Coster and Dumas binding above – and several beautiful manuscripts and paper samples.
Please come and visit us at stand 417 if you are in Boston or if you want to look at the catalogue please click here
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS E-CATALOGUE
Above is the link to a brand new e-catalogue of an extensive Golden Cockerel Press collection of a London Gentleman. The collection includes 109 items from the press amongst which is an excellent copy of Gill’s Four Gospels, a specially bound copy of Endymion with wood engravings by John Buckland Wright and numerous other specially bound copies. For anyone wanting to start collecting Golden Cockerels or wanting to fill in some gaps, this is the perfect opportunity.
After a very long wait, I am finally back in New York exhibiting at the Armory this weekend. It promises to be a bumper fair with dealers from all over the world bringing their very best books to show to an excited audience – not least other dealers who have been cooped up for way too long.
I will be showing a wide variety of items, loosely put together as a show of The Art of the Book, at stand/booth A10…to see the fully illustrated catalogue please click on Gaylord Schanilec’s image of Times Square above … or click here
Some highlights include one of the rarest of private press books, the Daniel Press’s Garland of Rachel – only 36 copies were printed and we have one of the 18 reserved for contributors (each of which had an individual title page). This one was for the man who instigated the whole project, T.H. Ward (or the Mr to the great Mrs Humphry Ward).
A fine manuscript of the Rubaiyat by Percy Delf Smith, one of the founders, with Edward Johnston and Eric Gill, of the Society of Calligraphers.
Some excellent bindings – several by women bookbinders like Alice Pattinson, Dorothy Carlton Smyth and Johanna Birkenruth and a good selection of work by British women wood engravers including Monica Poole, Clare Leighton, Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker and Miriam MacGregor. Do come along to have a look!
Bluebeard’s Castle – a remarkable pop-up artist’s book by Ron King at his Circle Press
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At last…in-person book fairs are on their way back!
I am absolutely thrilled to be exhibiting at Rare Books LA in the Pasadena Convention Center this weekend – 4th to 6th Feb – Booth 303
Next weekend I will be in Oakland for the 54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Oakland Marriott City Center – 11th-13th Feb – Booth 104
If you would like tickets please let me know – it would be wonderful to see you.
Click here for the book fair catalogue!!
Throughout December we will be showing a wide variety of bookbindings by French, British, American, Dutch and German binders from Edwards of Halifax to the great Paul bontogether with Benjamin Spademan at his beautiful shop. The catalogue is available by clicking on the image above or here
The show will go on for the month at 14 Mason’s Yard. Please call ahead or email if you would like to visit.
Saatchi Gallery here we come!
I will be exhibiting in London this weekend at the London Rare Book Fair in the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, just near Sloane Square.
If you would like to come, you can get a complimentary ticket by clicking on this link
I am going to be showing 90 new and exciting items from the shop which can be viewed in my fair list which you can find by clicking on the image below:
Embroidered letter folder c.1820 belonging to a Sussex suffragette & founder of a free lending library
Barnett Freedman’s advertising brochure for cheese
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I will be exhibiting in Paris this weekend at the joyous rare book fair in the Grand Palais Ephemere. If you are in Paris in the next 4 days please let me know and I will make sure you get a ticket for entry either to the Vernissage on Thursday or on any of the other days.
The books I will be exhibiting can be viewed in my fair list below:
We are thrilled to announce the publication of the final part of the impressive Kenneth Auchincloss Collection of Fine Printing & Press books.
It includes work from a large number of presses including Kat Ran, Kelly-Winterton, Kleukens, Libanus, Mason Hill, Merrymount, Nonesuch, Officina Bodoni, Old School, Old Stile, Pennyroyal, Pentagram, Petrarch, Rampant Lions, Tuscany Alley, Appletree Alley, Raven, Shakespeare Head, Spiral, Stanbrook Abbey, Tern, Woolly Whale and Whittington Presses as well as several works by Rudolf Koch & Bruce Rogers amongst others.
To view the catalogue, click here
There are also around 400 less expensive books from the collection listed online, exclusively on our website…for a list of the presses to search see Books Priced under £100