Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
18th January 2019
Ladies and gents, the countdown has begun! If you follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook you might be wondering why we’ve been posting photos of wobbly toys and flamboyant Italian men. The answer is, of course, because we can, but it is also because…
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18th May 2015
In my last post before the London International Antiquarian Book Fair next week, I want to share a rather delightful Victorian children’s game, which using rebuses (see my earlier post for something similar from the eighteenth century) and fractions to help teach the cities of the world: The cards are grouped in pairs: one is headed […]
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13th January 2015
Last month, over at The New Antiquarian, I wrote about uncut books: I love them, but not collating them. But here’s something I had recently which made ‘collating’ (i.e. checking to see if it’s all there) rather more fun: Published c.1860 by John Betts in London, it’s ‘a sheet of 22 coloured illustrations, dissected as a puzzle, […]
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