The Book Collector

Archived since No. 1, 1947

Complete Archive

305 issues

The Book Collector is a quarterly journal, in print and online, offering 192 pages per issue of wit, pleasure and knowledge on all aspects of the book through all ages. We have anything up to ten articles every time, book reviews, obituaries, prices at book auctions and a section on world-wide book chat. We’ve produced special issues on Ian Fleming (our founder), Polar Exploration and Women among Books. Our online archive, which goes back to 1947, is a resource for both students and academics that’s second to none.

Latest Issue:

Vol 75 No 1

Spring 2026

Not to Deliver the Last Word, But to Start a Conversation: The Story of the Legacy Press, Cathy Baker
Three Antwerp Bindings on Scottish Books, c.1650, and Frisket Waste from the Plantin-Moretus Press, Kelsey Jackson Williams and William Zachs
A Mistaken Attribution: Mistral’s Mireille Bound by Frederick Maullen, Marianne Tidcombe
Victorian Binding Designer CB: Evidence for Charles Bayman, Bookbinders’ Tool Cutter, Jane Brown and Gregory Jones
Sealing Immortality: A Portrait of Collector Lam Cheung Chung, Huilin Chang
John Wyndham, the Uncosy Catastrophist, Philip Gooden
The Poison Bag: German (Homo)erotica in the 20th Century, Marcus Choo
Reflections of a Book Reviewer, Jeremy Black
Letter from Melbourne

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