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

Southwold shop moves to Suffolk site nearby where another dealer had traded for 35 years

Not a first edition of the horror classic but the version printed five years later is also sought after

An Elizabethan or early Stuart diamond cluster gold ring found in Wormington, Gloucestershire, in November 2024 was among 14 metal detected jewels offered at Noonans (24% buyer’s premium) in Mayfair.

Clockmaker Brockbank & Atkins of St John’s Square, Clerkenwell, was known as a supplier of mahogany and silvered brass eight-day wall clocks for lighthouses.

A collector’s cabinet sold by Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on June 30-July 1 was from a small group of furnishings fashioned from the Waterloo Elm.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a collection of eight autograph letters from the poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne selling at Sotheby’s New York

The He-Man film out now has struggled at the box office but the character in a smaller form amazed saleroom bidders.

Original copper printing plates for works by famous artists do not appear often at auction, and rarely does a private collection come for sale.

Paintings of elegantly attired female figures hold a special place in the oeuvre of the Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937).

When a Philadelphia family consigned Europa, a 1927 painting by Czech Modernist Josef Šíma (1891-1971), to Freeman’s (28/21% buyer’s premium) last year, it prompted scholars and art historians to do a double take.