Shapero Rare Books Blog

No stretch of water anywhere in the world has the same significance for all manner of ...

Seventy years ago on the 29th May two men successfully reached the s...

The Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes, Pharaonic remains, the list of British ‘souvenirs�...

With the coronation of HM King Charles III this weekend, our New Bond Street bookshop ...

Today we are most familiar with the Silk Routes through Chinese ‘soft power’ as ex...

March 19th marks the birthday of David Livingstone, who, along with captains Cook and ...

This year, TEFAF Maastricht returns to its traditional spring dates, and to celebrate ...

As the publishing & art world finally become more gender inclusive, we celebrate some of the fa...

Are you thinking about delving into the world of rare book collecting? We have develop...

I was in my garden this bright sunny morning (albeit a bit chilly) watching a great sp...

Banned, Censored, Exiled: Soviet Era Literature After the Soviet Union was formed in 1...

Inspired by the current exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society of British Women...

Our latest catalogue, Exploration & Travel 2023 is about to be published. The 131 ...

Mountains have always fascinated me and as a consequence mountaineers also intrigue me...

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the production of children’s books flour...

Christmas Delivery Final Order Dates UK  - by 22nd noon December Europe, USA & C...

Christmas Delivery Final Order Dates UK  - by 22nd December Europe, USA & Canada...

Christmas Delivery Final Order Dates UK  - by 22nd December Europe, USA & Canada...

If you are looking for last-minute gifts, our bookshop at 105 New Bond Street will be ...

Ahead of the festive season, we are delighted to present our seasonal catalogue Prese...

Ahead of the festive season, we are delighted to present our seasonal catalogue Prese...

Ahead of the festive season, we are extremely excited to present our seasonal catalogu...

When we watch Bridgerton or the many film adaptions of Jane Austen novels, it is easy ...

Long before mobile travel apps there was the Baedeker Guide, indispensable for helping thousand...

George Barbier (1882-1932) was the supreme decorative designer of A...

One of the most internationally celebrated fictional characters of all time, James Bond first e...

Here is some basic advice to help keep books in the best possible condition. Even if y...

I knew next to nothing about William Beckford (1759-1844) until, a year or so after I ...

Books have been banned for a variety of reasons over the centuries, ranging from racism, anti-r...

A selection of our favourite rare books for children

Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published in L...

To do an injustice to Tennyson, it’s usually at this time that my fancy turns to get...

What makes a book desirable apart from the important fact that you like it? Rarity pla...

Ahead of Firsts London 2022, Shapero Rare Books takes a look at some of the titles you may neve...

Writers and spies - exploring all things cloak and typewriter by delving into the murky world o...

Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1...

July is here and things are hotting up. Our team of specialists have...

Author Dame Iris Murdoch was born on this day in 1919, we delved back into the Rare Book Review...

Last week I was fortunate to buy a small quantity of the original 19...

I suppose that whenever people think of the Himalayas, they think of...

Masterpiece London, opening next week on 30th June, is the unmissabl...

Following on from President Erdogan’s December 2021 statement, the...

Adam Blakeney writes – ‘I sometimes equate Graham Greene with mi...

The Holy Kaaba is the most important site in the Islamic world. The ...

With the 2022 PGA Championship looming large on the fairway it seemed like a good time...

On the anniversary of Cook’s arrival in Botany Bay, we look back at an article from ...

The joy of book collecting is the freedom to form a library exactly ...

PERSIA & AFGHANISTAN. Seen in the light of the past forty years, sinc...

I have always been fascinated by mountains and tra...

Nowadays India is one of the largest and most important centres of printing and publis...

The first thing that needs saying is that not everybody that sets out for Timbuctoo ge...

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), although born almost 200 years ago, seems very much a...

Need some motivation to keep on top of those new year resolutions? Who better to take advice fr...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of one of those moments that scho...

When putting our new travel catalogue together, one of the first ...

Our story begins at the end of the nineteenth century with the fairy...

As book lovers we all owe a debt of gratitude to the Sumerians, the ...

Where collecting is concerned, the Qur’an is a multi-faceted text ...

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw the publicati...

Thinking of the British and Africa, I suppose the things that comes ...

The Tibetan plateau, situated at some 15,000 feet (4500 metres), sur...

On the boggy delta of the Neva, Peter the Great founded his ‘windo...

Did they really do that? Some of the greatest feats o...

The other day I received an e-mail offering me a copy of Brand’s H...

An exhibition of the illustrated works of Aubrey Beardsley who shocked and thrilled audiences.

The Mutiny on the Bounty William Bligh (1754-1815) wi...

An interview with Angus Robb as part of our Books not Border series, wherein we're bre...

We talk to our Founder and CEO, Bernard Shapero, as part of our Books not Border serie...

From Monday 12th April, the doors to our bookshops and galleries at ...

Highlights from our recently published catalogue Iran Zamin, as pick...

An interview with our Literature specialist Roddy Newlands as part of our Books not Bo...

As part of our Books not Borders series, where we're breaking down the barriers to the...

The second in our Books Not Borders series, where we're breaking down the barriers to ...

Today we begin the first in a new blog series, Books Not Borders or for the French Livres Sans ...

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Islamic departmen...

London-based bookstore Shapero's children's book expert Roddy Newlands told MailOnline children...

Whatever the Tier might be, we are still open online for all your book buying needs. Our online...

Whilst our Bookshops and Gallery at 105 and 106 New Bond Street will...

2020 has seen an exciting period of expansion for Shapero Rare Books...

Good Icons installed at 106 New Bond Street Shapero Rare Books and Sh...

We will be open for business as usual online whilst the doors to our Bookshop and Gallery at 1...

Lorna May Wadsworth installs striking portraits of Neil Gaiman at Shapero Rare Books a...

One of the great men of his age, Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was a true polymath. With an ext...

We're moving! After nearly twenty-five years in Saint George Street, the sale of our much-loved...

For the non-collector among us (are there really people who don’t collect books?), the idea t...

Vive la France! Vive la Russie! THE FRENCH STATE VISI...

Artists have long supplemented their larger practice by making print...

I am delighted to be able to announce that following changes in the ...

Artists’ studios are the perfect place to see and understand the creative process th...

An Update from 32 Saint George Street

Kelmlscott Press founder William Morris was also a serious book collector; he amassed a library...

Ahead of Quentin Blake’s exhibition of new works here at Shapero HQ, our Digital Content Mana...

Celebrating the freedom to read, Banned Books Week has become a focal point in the literary yea...

Ralph Steadman was born this month in 1936; here we republish in full for the first ti...

More than 100 years after their invention, this Rare Book Review article finds true Cosway Bind...

Rare Book Review reveals that the whole universe of science fiction lies in the original pulp m...

Rare Book Review article slicing through the cut-throat stories from the earliest pirate books ...

The past month has seen Shapero Rare Books and our Gallery, Shapero Modern included in Tatler a...

Shapero Rare Books are delighted to be hosting the European la...

Splendidly rendered in bronze, Millicent Fawcett now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes...

In honour of the famous creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, born on this day in 19...

The strictest period of banned books in Russia began in 1934 when Zhdanov instructed the First ...

Trouvelot's total eclipse of the sun, one of a complete set of 15 celestial chromolithographs.....

The great natural history museum collections have at their foundation, specimens collected by 1...

Incredible photos from over 100 years ago show how much our lives have changed.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 01 APRIL 2017 London - Shapero Rare Books selected as the rare ...

A voyage around the history of cartography takes in sea monsters, newly charted territ...

Dr Philip Mansel's top picks at Shapero Rare Books

To mark the 300th anniversary year of her death, Shapero Rare Books will showcase the ...

26 January 2017. IRISH NEWS Before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney had begun working ...

VisitEngland has declared 2017 the 'Year of Literary Heroes'. See below...

Lines in the Ice: Marginalia My recent talk at Shapero Rare Books gave me the opportun...

On 28 April 1789, disaffected crewmen took control of the HMS Bounty and cast the capt...

Today we are all too aware of the appalling damage inflicted by ISIS on the ancient si...

The extraordinary success of a megalomaniac, an uncharted world, and a team of savant explorers

Frequently described within his own lifetime as the most interesting figures of the ni...

Ernest Shackleton, born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1874, was for many years the forgotten m...

The rapid acceleration of China's economy - still on course to overtake the U.S. by 20...

Civil servant, naval secretary, developer, publicist, settler, author and all-round-ad...

Through the nineteenth century, interest in the North Polar region was stimulated by v...

From a workhouse in Wales to establishing one of the ...

The industrial revolution in the United Kingdom spawned a host of great British explor...