Books and Works on Paper

The coming weeks will offer some special, if sometimes very costly, opportunities for bird lovers.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from May 15-25, 2018.

Mexican lots, one of them relating to the working of a silver mine in the 16th century, produced some of the higher bids in a recent Americana sale.

The first Guide Michelin was published in 1900 and no fewer than 35,000 copies were printed for the World Fair in Paris, where it was was distributed free of charge to motorists.

Those who worry about the art and antiques market’s ability to react to its big three challenges – digitisation, changing tastes and an ageing collector base – should look to the books, maps and prints sector and take heart.

How do aspiring dealers acquire the skills and expertise needed to enter the rare books or works on paper trade?

Kelmscott’s finest achievement is probably its edition of 'The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer'. It is described in Printing and the Mind of Man as “perfect… both in design and in the quality of the printing”.

Limited to 111 copies (105 on paper and six on vellum), ‘The Ashendene Dante’ is the rarest of the three magnum opi of the English private press movement.

ATG's pick of books and works on paper recently sold at auction...

It’s a big year for London’s leading light in the international rare books calendar, writes Kate Quill. This month’s 'The ABA Rare Book Fair London' on May 24-26 – the flagship of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) – is the 61st but the first year at Battersea Evolution, in south-west London.

As we approach the second anniversary of our inaugural 2016 auction, we are again delighted to be the sponsors of Antique Trade Gazette’s ‘Books, Maps & Prints’ supplement.

In a journey starting with the Great Fire and taking in the 1980s, dealer Tim Bryars explores the collecting market for London maps

Night after night in the summer of 1916, the artist and bookbinder Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922) visited the Thames near Hammersmith Bridge under cover of darkness, each time laden down with a package wrapped in brown paper and string.

In the bicentenery year of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Gothic genre continues to capture the popular imagination, writes Kate Quill.

Gothic literature is perhaps most alive in the public imagination today through cinema, with horror films inspired by the classic Gothic stories going back to the earliest days of the medium.

The 'California International Antiquarian Book Fair' and the 'New York International Antiquarian Book Fair' give dealers the chance to access the US east coast and west coast markets within the first few months of the year.

A list of the events taking place at this year's 'Rare Books London'.

The photobook genre is almost as old as photography itself and can be collected at all price points, as Bonhams’ Matthew Haley reports.

A list of upcoming book fairs in the UK and overseas.

A volume containing Richard Hooker’s sixth and eighth books dealing with The Lawes of Ecclesiastical Policy… is a 1651 re-issue of an edition first published three years earlier. The principal attraction, however, was the armorial binding.