Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
14th January 2016
This is the rather splendid cover vignette to The Last of the Brave; or Resting Places of our Fallen Heroes in the Crimea and at Scutari by Captains John Colborne and Frederic Brine, published by Ackermann & Co. in 1857. In the introduction, they write: ‘Not quite two summers ago three mighty powers stood breathing defiance against […]
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15th July 2015
Sometimes a book ends up posing questions which you, as a bookseller, simply cannot answer. I enjoy the research aspects of what I do, but I recognise that I cannot know everything, and also that the books I offer for sale must provide further possibilities for research for the customer, whether private collector or special collections library. Here is an example: This binder’s stamp […]
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