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The Book Collector

Archived since No. 1, 1947
Complete Archive

307 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:

  • Wynkyn de Worde’s The lyff of the faders: A Correction to Duff’s Fifteenth Century English Books John Gandy 
  • Friends and Subtle Enemies: Some American Early Bookwomen of the 20th Century Rhiannon Knol 
  • The Sale of the Stowe Papers to the Huntington Library (1925) Susan Finding 
  • ‘NOT RECOMMENDED’: The Archive of the Associated British Picture Corporation’s Readers’ Department Neil Pearson 
  • Figgy Fake: The Boswell Brothers Pull a Fast One Terry Seymour 
  • The Brotherton Gothic: Vampires in Leeds Sarah Prescott and Rachel Eckersley 
  • The Bindings of Conrad Neidel of Wittenberg, 1538–1565 Chris Arnison
  • ‘The Leigh Hunt Collection’ J. E. Smyth
  • Restored by Fate: The Author of The White Olive (1899) Henry Gott
  • Fuchsia Voremberg, The Markham Interviews (New Series) Sheila Markham
  • A Favourite Book G. Thomas Tanselle

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  • First Issue: No. 1, 1947
  • Latest Issue: Autumn 2026
  • Issue Count: 307