We will exhibiting at the Hong Kong Book Fair this weekend which takes place at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum from 4pm on Friday until Sunday afternoon. To see the fair list please click here
Boston Book Fair – 8th to 10th November 2024
I am so looking forward to exhibiting at the Boston Book Fair this weekend at the Hyne Convention Center. You will find me at Stand 404 with a display of bookbindings, private and fine press books, books on paper, sample books, illustrated and artists’ books as well as some other curious bits and pieces such as original photographs of Dickens, some remarkable 18th century decoupage albums and an original portable bookbinding tool kit designed by Dorfner. Do come and see me there or you can browse the catalogue here
Paris Book Fair 14-16th June
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.
New York Antiquarian Book Fair 4th-7th April
Tokyo Book Fair, 15th-17th March 2024
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…
California Book Fairs – Private Press, Fine Press, Artists’ and Illustrated Books
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
Highlights include a Cranach Press Hamlet, the Golden Cockerel/Gill Four Gospels, several Hammer Creek Press titles, modern illuminated manuscripts, some superb examples of bookbindings, paper and textile sample books, numerous private press books including rare Ashendenes and Golden Cockerels including the rare hand-coloured Song of Songs and Vale Press on vellum.
We will also be showing rare prints original drawings by Eric Gill, some 19th century paper dolls, a slate carving with the words of Emily Dickinson and an 18th century pocket sundial.
If you are in the area and would like a ticket to the fairs, please do let me know.
Private Press, Fine Press, Artists’ and Illustrated Books at the Oxford Fine Press Fair – December 9th-10th
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.
BOSTON INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR 27-29th October
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
SALON DU LIVRE RARE, PARIS
I will be exhibiting at the wonderful Salon du Livre Rare in the Grand Palais éphémère this weekend (21st-24th September).
If you are in Paris, I will be at stand i8 – if not please do find my fair list…CLICK HERE
Eragny Press, Queen of the Fishes…the first book from the Press
Max Ernst’s surrealist masterpiece of a novel, entirely created in collage – in a remarkable binding
Tzara’s late book of poetry with a striking lithographed cover by Leger – inscribed by the author