3rd-6th April 2025

Come to New York this weekend and visit the most exciting book event of the year, the city’s Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory.

We will be showing some amazing new finds on our stand – E5 which is right at the front of the fair. Fancy seeing some Kelmscott Press books printed on vellum, beautiful and unique bookbindings, some original woodblocks by the great masters of the art, etchings by Picasso, Miro? Just drop by this weekend and see what we have or look at our fair catalogue here

‘On the Distaff Side’: Women Makers from 1897 to the Present Day

Catalogue 31 is now available online (click here) or as a hard copy – email sophie@ssrbooks.com to receive a copy.

It focuses on women makers including bookbinders, calligraphers, illuminators, miniaturists, artists and illustrators, book artists & fine presswomen, designers, paper-makers and stonemasons. Do take a look.

I will be exhibiting this weekend at Rare Books San Francisco. It is in the beautiful Fort Mason pavilion with a stunning view out to the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. For details of where to come see here.

Please click on the image above to see what I will be showing  – for those in the know you will see the nod to the Ashendene Press Chaucer (item 1) on the front cover… Colin Franklin talked about the original cover as being “like stars in the night sky”. Not sure that has been achieved here but it is rather fun. (Thanks to James Alexander of Jade Design).

You can also view the fair catalogue here

I am thrilled to be exhibiting at Le Salon du Livre Rare at Le Carreau du Temple this weekend, alongside Thomas Heneage at stand D8. All the fair details can be found here.

I will be showing illustrated and private press books, artists’ books, bookbindings and prints from France, Germany and Great Britain.

My list can be seen here or if you click on the image below (one of a series of images for each month on letter paper by Guy Arnoux)

Spring has sprung and I will be in New York to enjoy Rare Book Week and the splendid fair at The Armory, Park Avenue. Some of the greatest books available to buy anywhere in the World will be on show and I can’t wait to see what is on offer.

If you can’t make it you can see a small part of it here – over 80 very recent acquisitions – some superb Private Press books including both the deluxe English edition and the German edition of the Cranach Press Hamlet (very useful to see the two of them together and appreciate the variations), some really fine Golden Cockerels, an inscribed Kelmscott Press Hand and Soul, a whole case of fine and designer book bindings. I also have a remarkable 19th century Scottish Bible salesman’s sample book, several paper samples and some really good illuminated ms. from the late 19th and early 20th century including a remarkable and large scale ms. of Baudelaire by the francophile artist Bulwer-Lytton.

Catalogue

Next weekend I will be exhibiting in Tokyo for the first time.  I will be at Stand 8 in the Tokyo Traffic Hall so if you are in town, I look forward to seeing you there.

One of the books coming with me is one of the 30 special hand-coloured copies of the Golden Cockerel Press Song of Songs illustrated by Eric Gill. This one with a letter from Robert Gibbings to the purchaser Thomas Balston…for more details and the full catalogue, click on the image below…

Over the next two weekends I will be exhibiting over 100 books at the California Book Fairs – Rarebooks LA on 3-4 February in Pasadena and at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair at Pier 27, in San Francisco, 9th-11th February

To see the over 100 books on show please click here

FinePressFair23

We will be exhibiting at the Oxford Fine Press Fair this weekend and bringing some really superb Private Press books including the Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales and Troilus, the Cranach Hamlet, a Kelmscott Nature of Gothic and books from the Doves Press, Essex House Press, Gregynog Press and Cresset Press.

There will be numerous books illustrated with wood engravings by the greatest engravers including Eric Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Agnes Miller Parker, David Jones, Reynolds Stone, Clare Leighton amongst others. Lucien Boucher features with his eye catching or eye popping lithography.

Although we haven’t been able to do the photography in time as the majority of these books are brand new in stock, a good list can be seen here….https://www.ssrbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FinePressFair23.pdf

If you are in Oxford during the weekend please come to visit us at stand 36.

This weekend we will be exhibiting at the Hyne Convention Center on Boylston Street in Boston. To view the special fair catalogue of fine bookbindings, illustrated books, fine and private press books, artists’ books, lettering, paper and more, please click here

If you need a ticket for free entry to the fair, please do email us