Leafy London squares, boldly painted furniture, cottage-style gardens and unorthodox ménages: the loose circle of writers and artists which came to be known as the Bloomsbury Group are perhaps as well-known for their aesthetic tastes ...
Between the Reformation and the beginning of the 18th century, Europe endured two centuries of strife and bloodshed in the name of religion – riots, civil wars, and international conflicts, draconian religious laws, and the ...
Mid twentieth-century America. In a corporate board room, hazy with tobacco smoke and whiskey fumes, a man pitches innovative new advertising ideas. Soap isn’t just for mundane hygiene issues, it’s associated with sensuality and should ...
What end can be more noble than the pursuit of virtue? what motive more alluring, than the practice of justice? or what instruction more beneficial, than an accurate elucidation of symbols which tend to improve ...
A particularly uncommon and interesting book, My Experiences as an Executioner (BOOK SOLD) is the memoir of James Berry (1852–1913), the UK’s first truly literate hangman, and the first to write and speak publicly about ...
We made an exciting acquisition this week, a single leaf from a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book produced using movable type. Also known as the 42-Line Bible, it was printed in ...
This is one of our most exciting recent purchases, a hand-coloured leaf from a fifteenth-century block book known as the Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying). Book technology and the transition between script and print ...
As bibliophiles, how often do we stop to consider the ways sightless people experience books and reading? Prior to the mid-nineteenth century few options existed for the blind; several systems of raised lettering had been ...
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New to our shelves!
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, published in 1982: https://loom.ly/ni7VCnM
View our latest newsletter to discover our new acquisitions: https://loom.ly/CK7r2hY
A selection of astonishing page edges from our shelves!
Pictured:
- Chasovnik - Kazakh Old Believer Book of Hours
- Officium Herbdomada Sanctae Secundum Missale Et Vreviarium Romanum S. PII V. Pontif. Maximi
- The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
We are delighted to announce our participation in the @Londonprintfair from 1st to 8th May. While the print fair can't be hold at the Royal Academy of Arts this year, we invite you to come to our Dover Street bookshop to view our print exhibition. https://loom.ly/Qao17oM
4A couple of days ago, we went to the Chelsea Bindery to meet the bookbinders and discuss about the day-to-day life of a modern bindery.
Here are a couple of photographs showing you the various machinery and tools used for bookbinding.
