Books & Periodicals

Register bizarrely contains the stats of notables as part of a social ritual

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

Clare Jameson founded her firm Potterton Books more than 45 years ago.

Our second report covering the auction that made the highest total for a UK various-owner book sale

Bryan Faussett (1720-76) was a clergyman and amateur historian in the grand tradition who spent much of his time opening tumuli in his native county of Kent.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

John Boydell’s (1720-1804) entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that “no print publisher before or since has ever exerted as much influence on the course of British art”.

Following furnishings in Edinburgh, a Carlisle sale offers books from the library of Clan Maxwell seat

An 1860s musical manuscript by German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97), entirely in his hand, came for sale at Lion Heart Autographs (22% buyer’s premium).

By coincidence, in the very week that a recently discovered work by Mozart – a previously unknown composition for harp and flute – was premiered in Paris, a piece of Mozart ephemera caused a stir in Vienna.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Bonhams offered the Contents of Monreith House: A Historical Seat of Clan Maxwell in two July sales from its Edinburgh saleroom.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

A week after Christie’s (27/22% buyer’s premium) sold a first edition of Wuthering Heights for a record £950,000 hammer (see ATG No 2751), the King Street auction house’s sale of Valuable Books and Manuscripts including Cartography set a new record for a UK various-owner book sale at £10m hammer.