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How can the UK assess and secure if necessary the papers that may shed light on the country’s history? Mark Stevens, county archivist at Royal Berkshire Archives, gives us an expert’s view

Julian Wilson has set up his own independent antiquarian book-selling business in south London.

Our selection of lots at seven upcoming auctions.

A Latin to French dictionary that belonged to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was among the highlights a recent sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps at Doyle New York (28/27% buyer’s premium).

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

ATG takes a look at some stand-out lots sold recently at an auction in Berlin

Graham Slater’s collection that packed a Cambridge house provided 670 lots over two auctions

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about,” Oscar Wilde wrote in The Picture of Dorian Gray - a prescient observation that has proven remarkably true.

The public may have been surprised to discover that Barry Humphries (1934-2023), the creator of Dame Edna Everage, was a great bibliophile with a passion for rare books by the ‘decadent’ writers of the fin de siècle.

A recent Freeman’s Hindman (28/27% buyer’s premium) sale in Chicago included a first edition of John Locke’s foundational text on civil society and the nature of government 'Two Treatises of Government….'

Stand-out lots from Shakespeare to Sendak, Marie-Antoinette to Mary Queen of Scots, Gill to Waugh and Turing to Buffalo Bill

A recent survey reveals a drop in dealers’ sales combined with a sharp rise in costs

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