Further Reading

    Mary Shelley's Travels: Rambles in Germany and Italy

    Mary Shelley's Travels: Rambles in Germany and ...

    Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 , is the rather prosaically titled last published work of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

    Travel & Exploration

    Mary Shelley's Travels: Rambles in Germany and ...

    Shelly After Frankenstein

    Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 , is the rather prosaically titled last published work of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

    Scott's 'Discovery' Expedition to the Antarctic

    Scott's 'Discovery' Expedition to the Antarctic

    The Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), Britain’s first major Antarctic venture, achieved remarkable scientific and geographic milestones despite limited funding and inexperience. Led by Robert Falcon Scott, it reached a new furthest...

    Travel & Exploration

    Scott's 'Discovery' Expedition to the Antarctic

    The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

    The Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), Britain’s first major Antarctic venture, achieved remarkable scientific and geographic milestones despite limited funding and inexperience. Led by Robert Falcon Scott, it reached a new furthest...

    Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books

    Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books

    Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.

    Science & Nature

    Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books

    By Laura Massey

    Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.

    Ukrainian Modernism

    Ukrainian Modernism

    The Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s , is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of...

    Eastern European

    Ukrainian Modernism

    A visit to the Royal Academy in London

    The Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s , is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of...

    Provenance

    Provenance

    The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy.

    Travel & Exploration

    Provenance

    Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.

    The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy.

    Africa Inscribed

    Africa Inscribed

    In anticipation of the approaching London Antiquarian book fairs, this May, we are spotlighting rare African exploration works. Featured, are four first editions, with inscriptions linking them to historical figures, enhancing their...

    Travel & Exploration

    Africa Inscribed

    Four essential works of African exploration.

    In anticipation of the approaching London Antiquarian book fairs, this May, we are spotlighting rare African exploration works. Featured, are four first editions, with inscriptions linking them to historical figures, enhancing their...

    Art and the East India Company

    Art and the East India Company

    Explore the art of the East India Company through a selection of prints and books, carefully chosen from our current stock, which offer valuable insights into artistic and colonial attitudes...

    Travel & Exploration

    Art and the East India Company

    Insights & Attitudes

    Explore the art of the East India Company through a selection of prints and books, carefully chosen from our current stock, which offer valuable insights into artistic and colonial attitudes...

    Childhood Tales & Imaginary Places

    Childhood Tales & Imaginary Places

    The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor.  Join...

    Literature

    Childhood Tales & Imaginary Places

    A trip down memory lane

    The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor.  Join...

    A Journey Through Natural History

    A Journey Through Natural History

    Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht:  the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has...

    Arts & Architecture

    A Journey Through Natural History

    TEFAF Maastricht 2024

    Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht:  the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has...

    Celebrating Women in Fiction

    Celebrating Women in Fiction

    This International Woman’s Day, travel from the political vicissitudes of Rome to the sun draped heat of the Sasanian empire, through cold moors and loveless houses, to gardens at the...

    Literature

    Celebrating Women in Fiction

    International Women's Day 2024

    This International Woman’s Day, travel from the political vicissitudes of Rome to the sun draped heat of the Sasanian empire, through cold moors and loveless houses, to gardens at the...

    The Overland Route

    The Overland Route

    Watching the news and seeing the disruption to shipping in the Red Sea, I was reminded of how the possibility of using this route so travellers in earlier days.

    Travel & Exploration

    The Overland Route

    Rediscovering Historical Trade Routes

    Watching the news and seeing the disruption to shipping in the Red Sea, I was reminded of how the possibility of using this route so travellers in earlier days.

    London Fashion Week Celebrates Four Decades of Timeless Style

    London Fashion Week Celebrates Four Decades of ...

    It’s London Fashion Week 2024 and designers and artists are descending on the capital to participate in one of the biggest fashion events of the year. This year sees Fashion...

    Literature

    London Fashion Week Celebrates Four Decades of ...

    London Fashion Week 2024

    It’s London Fashion Week 2024 and designers and artists are descending on the capital to participate in one of the biggest fashion events of the year. This year sees Fashion...

    A Visit to the Charles Dickens Museum

    A Visit to the Charles Dickens Museum

    Nestled in a quiet Georgian street, stands a house of talking ravens and Christmas ghosts, books and beetle traps, snuff, ink, poster beds, feasting, merriment and music.

    Literature

    A Visit to the Charles Dickens Museum

    On the Author's Birthday

    Nestled in a quiet Georgian street, stands a house of talking ravens and Christmas ghosts, books and beetle traps, snuff, ink, poster beds, feasting, merriment and music.

    Finding the Value of Old Books

    Finding the Value of Old Books

    Learn the basic tools and practical knowledge to begin to navigate the fascinating realm of rare books. Explore the various factors that influence the value of these literary gems, including physical condition...

    Guidebooks

    Finding the Value of Old Books

    The Hidden Worth of Written Words

    Learn the basic tools and practical knowledge to begin to navigate the fascinating realm of rare books. Explore the various factors that influence the value of these literary gems, including physical condition...

    Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

    Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

    Fairies and fiends, monsters and magic can be found in an ever-increasing number of bookshops and bookshelves around the world. They are the subject of the British Library’s extensive temporary...

    Literature

    Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

    Visit to the British Library

    Fairies and fiends, monsters and magic can be found in an ever-increasing number of bookshops and bookshelves around the world. They are the subject of the British Library’s extensive temporary...