The Book Collector

Archived since No. 1, 1947

Complete Archive

303 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:

From the Editor
The Rare Book Market Today: Reese Revisited
An Aldus Manutius Junior Myth Dismissed Paul Needham
A John Owen Collection: Material for a Bibliography Nicholas Poole-Wilson
‘Pictures and Conversations’: The Jon A. Lindseth Lewis Carroll Collection at Christ Church Oxford Gabriel Sewell
Illustrating Wordsworth: Norah Neilson Gray’s Intimations of Immortality Peter Dale and Brandon Yen
The Personal Library of Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) Philip S. Palmer
Extraterrestrial Christians Paul McGrane
Jonathan Hill, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 34 Sheila Markham
Byron’s Lost Pages: Fiction, Forgery and the Rare Book Trade Adam Douglas
A Favourite Book Anthony Davis

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