Books & Periodicals

Account of the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb comes as rare set with dust jackets intact

A fine Oscar Wilde letter sold for £16,000 at Dawsons (25% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead on June 29.

From late 1940 to early 1941 André Breton and a group of other Surrealists including Wifredo Lam, Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, André Masson and Frédéric Delanglade re-located to Marseille where they anxiously awaited visas to escape occupied France.

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A postcard carried on the world’s first official airmail flight came up for auction in Staffordshire.

Apocrypha sold at auction was his personal copy and then inscribed by descendants who later owned it

Thomas Bradshaw has been described as a poor civil servant but a brilliant artist.

In recent times the work of newspaper cartoonists has been reassessed with a nod to its artistic, technical and historical merit.

A setting with lots of water next to valuable books may not seem an obvious fit but it was a successful match

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Christie’s Books and Manuscripts sale on July 12 included a remarkable copy of 'Insectivorous Plants' by Charles Darwin (1809-82).

More than 10,000 books and artworks from the library of the late Christopher Foyle are coming to auction in Cirencester.

A poignant description of life as an artist studying at the Royal Academy in the mid-19th century emerged at auction and more than doubled its estimate.

Collecting genre is being boosted by fresh bidders with deep pockets who work in the technology sector

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

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Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite