Books & Periodicals

Book dealer Roger Treglown is the new president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association.

A most unusual book binding brought a bid of £5500 in a recent Bonhams sale.

Born in Celico, southern Italy and consequently known as ‘The Calabrian’, Gioachino Greco is considered the first professional chess player.

Collection from family of Nobel Prize winner generates many surprising auction results.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from April 9-18, 2019.

A ‘turn-up’ religious text was one of the earlier, rarer and more expensive items in a Somerset sale.

Signed to the front cover by all four members of the group, a 1963 ‘Star Special’ (No 12) issue of the fan magazine Meet the Beatles sold for £4200 at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on March 6. It also bore the name of a former owner, one RC Zebedee of Bournemouth.

Bernard Middleton, MBE (1986), was a self-employed book restorer and designer bookbinder from 1953-2016.

Medical and scientific library includes landmark Vesalius study on human anatomy.

Book dealer Martin Woolf Orskey, who died in December, aged 93, was a familiar figure in the trade. Indeed, OF Snelling, in his book Rare Books and Rarer People, published in 1982, described him as the “prince of all the book runners – for this is what he was to begin with, and he would be the first to admit it".

This 1937 portrait of art dealer Ambroise Vollard is included in an exhibition of Picasso ceramics, linocuts, etchings, lithographs and books at Peter Harrington’s Fulham Road gallery.

Our listing of British and Irish book auctions taking place from March 26-April 6, 2019.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.