Books & Periodicals

Two late 17th century recipe books sold for a surprise £15,000 (estimate £400-600) at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead on August 26.

For the Bed at Kelmscott was written by William Morris in 1891 as an ode to the oak four-poster at his country home in the Thames Valley.

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Thomas Annan’s Photographs of The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow is the earliest and most famous photographic record of the city’s slums.

Full set of seasonal series from the 1840s stars as Californian collection of literature comes for sale in US

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Family archive features poem written by Alice author for the well-connected owner of a scrapbook

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

Archive and avian template for porcelain designs reflect the life of a remarkable 19th century polymath

Joint ABA and PBFA books fair in Bath praised as ideal for meeting customers and fellow traders

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

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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.

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