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Show covers highly rated British artist who was content to keep a low profile

A book elaborately illustrated with needle-work samples and commemorating Queen Victoria’s first trip to Ireland as monarch was one of the standout sales as 'Firsts London’s Rare Book Fair' opened.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Annual specialist extravaganza held in Paris involves galleries, auction houses and museums

Brocantes bring a taste of summer to the nation's country houses – here are two to attend this year

Australian pharmaceutical chemist Robert Francis Burke started building his collection of Chelsea and Worcester porcelain in the 1970s, long before the days of the internet.

LAPADA has unveiled plans for its 50th anniversary including a summer exhibition and a new series of events around its flagship fair.

Gallery with family connections stages a show 150 years on from Paris exhibition where the art movement began

Simon Rastall, one of the exhibitors at the recent Annual Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, runs Rastall Art, which specialises in 20th century paintings.

Antique arms and armour dealers and auctioneers have come together to lobby against couriers restricting delivery of antique examples.

This miniature 17th century psalter in a contemporary pierced and engraved openwork silver binding is priced at £15,000 by Bernard Quaritch at Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair.

A wide range of dealers are set to offer a variety of items at upcoming fairs

First editions are not always the be-all and end-all for collecting

Designs promoting exhibitions can be a great way to collect on a tight budget

London dealership AntikBar brings a major collection of pieces relating to Intourist, the 20th century USSR travel company, to 'Firsts London' book fair.

Dickinson holds its first exhibition in the field with Renaissance artists going under the spotlight