Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland opens with an arresting illustration of the White Rabbit and the...
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Printing and the Mind of (Wo)man
The historic catalogue Printing and the Mind of Man, or PMM as it is usually abbreviated, was...
Shackleton’s South: is my copy a first edition?
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic...
Derek Walcott
One of the satisfactions of putting together a catalogue is the opportunity to tell a story –...
Charles Darwin: The Scientist and the Man
It goes without saying that On the Origin of Species is one of the most significant books in...
Friends with Benefits
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) is one of the most memorable cases of the benefits of a muse in...
Videos
Chinese Myths and Folklore with Dr Matt Wills
Handcrafted Papercuts by Women in ChinaOur Asia specialist Dr Matt discusses Myths and Folklore, an album of beautifully handcrafted papercuts made by Chinese students at the Ai Dao Women's Bible School in the 1930s. The stories they depict in this artwork range from...
One of Our Sixty Fine Items
LAWRENCE, T. E. The Foundations of Arab Revolt.Our senior specialist Adam Douglas shares a copy of The Foundations of Revolt owned by Robin Buxton. This is the famously rare first state of the prospectus for Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which includes the controversial...
Leadership with John Ryan
John Ryan present our Leadership catalogue which presents five centuries of print history, alongside significant manuscript and striking visual material. Revolutionaries and radicals, premiers and presidents, royalty and military commanders, founders of religions, and...