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Shown here are pages from an extremely long, hand-coloured aquatint record on one continuous folding strip just a little over 4in tall, but a work that would extend to around 19ft (5.8m) if fully opened.

This view of Wadham College, Oxford, by William Crotch (1775-1847) is the first and earliest in a catalogue of his works on show at Guy Peppiatt Fine Art.

Has the film 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' raised demand for the artist?

Six of the 45 distinctive designs from the artist’s spectacular London villa emerge at auction

After a four-year absence the Church Street Antiques Fair is returning to Marylebone in London on Sunday, June 11.

Welcome focus on women painters in recent years shows no sign of slowing down amid great interest and demand

Some exceptional pocket watches were offered for sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on May 11.

Australian dealer coming to the UK for Firsts describes the attractions of the Chelsea event

The London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest event of its kind, is widening its scope.

A 13th century Mamluk (Egyptian or Syrian) manuscript on astronomy sold for a surprise £140,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) in south London on April 28.

Two moulds for making buttons, given by studio potter Lucie Rie (1902-95) to her cleaning lady, were sold at a London auction on March 29.

The PBFA’s London International Antiquarian Book Fair takes place on May 20-21. Book dealer and PBFA publicity manager Jeremy Carson explains to ATG what to expect this year

Alan Chalmers of The Tennis Bookshop (established in 1988) has been awarded the United States Court Tennis Association’s 2023 George Plimpton Prize for his “fine work as a book dealer”.

The stand-free fair, 'Eye of the Collector', returns to London this May for its third physical edition.

When the Bletchley Park boffins were taking a break from code-breaking in the Second World War, complicated puzzles were one of the diversions.

Now hugely popular, this collecting field actually took many years to get going

A copy of Johann Kraft’s 'Pomona Austriaca' (Fruit Trees of Austria) featuring both the French and German texts as well as 100 hand-coloured plates is on offer at this spring’s Bloomsbury Book Fair Spring Event.

Rising to be Admiral of the Fleet during the War of the Spanish Succession, Sir Chaloner Ogle (1680-1750) had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy.

'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair' is returning to its usual May schedule this year and is committed to a spring date.