HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANCESCO!!! #Petrarch

We're highly anticipating the Bath Book Fair, which begins this Friday! You can pre-buy your ticket via the following link, or buy tickets on the door. loom.ly/GDcHEVs

Join us tonight at 6pm ET for the final event celebrating "Hardly Harmless Drudgery," a Virtual Tour and live curator Q&A with the curators on the exhibition Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. Register now: eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour…

We’re huge fans 🪭 of this eighteenth-century fan drawing depicting a street fight between French and Spanish factions in Rome. On our stand at the Bath book fair today & tomorrow bit.ly/Q-Bath2024

Join BSANZ online this Thursday to hear President Simon Farley in conversation with Maggie Patton, Dawn Albinger, & Chris Browne, about collecting & curating books for professional & private use. 12pm AEST Thurs 1 Aug Register: tinyurl.com/yyp9n3zt ALIA Rare Books and Special Collections SHARP (@[email protected])

In our latest blog, Adyan Sharda examines underground Catholic printing in Elizabethan England: ustc.ac.uk/news/undergrou…

🍎 ✏️School may be out for the summer, but we still have education on our minds! Our latest catalogue, a curated selection of forty rare books and manuscripts on education, is now available to read online (with a sneak peek pictured here) ... bit.ly/Q-Education2024

We're delighted to be able to announce our great speaker list for 2024-5 -- bibliographers, artists, textual scholars, book historians, book trade specialists, librarians, rare book cataloguers ... All talks in person and online: please come along! 📚

From education to crimes of passion, browse new catalogues from ABA members, regularly updated on the ABA website: loom.ly/yBu-djA

Delighted to be taking part in Oxford Bibliographical Society’s panel discussion on the rare book trade in May!

The Book Collector, Autumn 1967

Target audience reached

Five Rare Books for Collectors: Education finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new…

Our 2024 Summer Miscellany is now available to read online! No. 18 is a wonderful archive tracing the artistic development of Margaret Grubbe (1911–1997) from her childhood into middle age and featuring over 100 original drawings and watercolours ... bit.ly/Q-Miscellany20…

‘Very mindful, very demure’. Amusing from the recent Bernard Quaritch Ltd list.

Our Director will be stepping down in spring 2025 having led the Museum for nearly 10 years. This is an exciting time to join the Dickens Museum as we enter our centenary year. To be considered for the role, head to the link below for further details. dickensmuseum.com/pages/vacancie…

On October 2nd I’ll be talking about Eric Millar and Francis Wormald as manuscript collectors as part of this event celebrating the donation of a 14th-century Psalter to Senate House Library. Book now to attend online or in person 👇 senatehouselibrary.libcal.com/event/4248409