Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
No place like home: Holly Johnson opens showroom in Knutsford
01 June 2020As antiques businesses prepare to reopen across the country, Holly Johnson Antiques is set to launch a new showroom in Knutsford, Cheshire.
London Art Week prepares for record participation this summer
30 May 2020London Art Week is set to have record participation this summer as it launches an altered, online-focused format.
LAPADA Fair postponed over continuing coronavirus concerns
29 May 2020LAPADA has postponed its annual September fair in the wake of continued uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic.
Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 39 books, maps and works on paper available from dealers' websites
26 May 2020The annual 'Rare Books London' schedule of events is cancelled this year due to COVID-19, but plenty of book dealers are still doing business.
How distancing brings us closer: booksellers produce joint catalogues in lockdown
26 May 2020Dealers collaborate on catalogues – building on existing trends of pooling resources
PBFA online fair to go monthly
25 May 2020The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) is planning an unlimited succession of virtual fairs starting on the 29th of each month as it adapts to a world without traditional fairs.
Manuscripts dealer offers a puzzling pageturner
25 May 2020Five different texts from 16th century Germany are bound up in this intriguing vexierbuch.
Bodleian Library gobbles up chocolate box mini-museum for ‘edible’ books collection
21 May 2020The Bodleian Library has added an unusual piece of culinary history to its collection.
Future of the cultural sector discussed in LAPADA webinars as UK emerges from lockdown
19 May 2020LAPADA launches a webinar series this week with a conversation between the association’s CEO Freya Simms and Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dealer David Harper keeps super-busy
18 May 2020As if opening a shop right now weren’t enough, a book is on the way
Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 22 objects available from dealers' websites
18 May 2020Our selection of 22 objects to view and buy from dealers online.
Coronavirus: La Biennale Paris called off until 2021 but dealers face “no financial risks”
12 May 2020Organisers of La Biennale Paris have postponed the 32nd edition of the event until next year.
Dealers Online: ATG's selection of 20 objects available from dealers' websites
11 May 2020Our selection of 20 objects to view and buy from dealers online.
Petworth fair unveils first virtual event but plans for physical staging later on
11 May 2020Blackbrook Gallery, a specialist in 19th century naïve animal painting, offers Cheviot Ram at the first Virtual Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opening this week.
From Roman fragments to jigsaws: dealers sell for charity
11 May 2020Dealers might not be on the frontline of the coronavirus crisis but many are trying to do their bit through charity sales. Here is a quick look at some of the businesses pledging proceeds to good causes.
Dealers report sales at PBFA's inaugural online fair
11 May 2020A 1902 calendar from Hasegawa, Tokyo, filled with colourful illustrations and verse was among the sales at the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association’s (PBFA) first virtual fair.
Supreme pair of wartime printmakers featured at Osborne Samuel
11 May 2020Two of the most sought-after British artists of the First World War, Paul Nash and CRW Nevinson, are celebrated in an online exhibition at Osborne Samuel this month.
Campaign furniture exhibition keeps trade on the move during lockdown
11 May 2020Virtual exhibition showcases more than 80 items designed to be portable and flexible
Soviet Dollar features among item new AntikBar website
04 May 2020This set of 10 detective novels is by ‘Jim Dollar’, the pseudonym of Soviet author Marietta Shaginian (1888-1982), whose writing is described as ‘satirical fantasy fiction’.