Books and Works on Paper

Dealer Tim Bryars previews this year’s London Map Fair with an eye on current collecting trends

If social media makes you feel like Big Brother is watching you, and if truth occasionally feels stranger than fiction, then like many bibliophiles you might be exploring books that suggest models for society and the role of the individual.

A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and overseas.

But Brexit red tape is the talk of the trade as favourite fair returns to Old Town Hall

Can you tell your foxing from your deckle edge? Or quire from collation? Here is a handy guide to some of the terms used in the books and works on paper collecting field.

Works offered in Essex saleroom belonged to ‘capable, colourful and forceful’ professor

'Bewegungsstudie', or ‘Study of Movement’, by Rudolf Koppitz, is the most famous of six tipped-in photogravures, each with a protective glassine sheet, that make up Pictures from the Tyng Collection, a 1931 publication of the Royal Photographic Society.

First published 1817, Joseph Walker’s 'The Shepherd’s Guide' has been updated many times and is still in use today, noted Bill Nelson of 1818 Auctions.

A small group of Riccardi Press limited editions, each title produced in runs of 500 copies for the Medici Society, were offered in an April 7 sale held by Thomson Roddick (18% buyer’s premium) of Carlisle.

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Letter to adviser in 1592 underlines her frustration at the French king’s policies

Sammelband of 16th century scientific works deserved an extensive write-up as best-seller

The view of the Acropolis shown here is part of a three-section, folding litho panorama found in Selina Bracebridge’s Notes Descriptive of a Panoramic Sketch of Athens…

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Extensive group of lots from well-known book dealer and his wife led London auction

Bearing a very modest estimate of just £20-30, this copy of The Angler in Ireland: or An Englishman’s Ramble through Connaught and Munster, during the Summer of 1833 was bid to £700 in a March 12 sale held by Rowley’s (22.5% buyer’s premium) of Ely.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

The master wood carver and furniture maker copied out missing Bible pages when aged just 13.

The inscription “To dearest Clare from her affectionate P.B.S….” proved key to the price achieved by an 1812, two-volume Venetian edition of the Poesie toscane of the lyric poet Vincenzo da Filicaja (1642-1707).