Volume 68, No. 2.

Published 30 June 2019

Book Reviews

  • Barker, Nicolas – GORDON RAY: A REMEMBRANCE

  • Knott, David – BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS, 2nd edition

  • Fleming, Fergus – THROUGH THE PAGES: 250 YEARS OF THE LEEDS LIBRARY

  • Knott, David – MEETING BY ACCIDENT: SELECTED HISTORICAL BINDINGS

  • Edwards, A. S. G. – JOHN MEADE FALKNER: ABNORMAL ROMANTIC

  • Fleming, James – GREAT CATALOGUES BY MASTER BOOKSELLERS: A SELECTION OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES, 19TH - 21ST CENTURY

  • Fleming, James – THE BOOK THIEVES: THE NAZI LOOTING OF EUROPE'S LIBRARIES AND THE RACE TO RETURN A LITERARY INHERITANCE

  • Roberts, Dunstan – ELIZABETHAN PUBLISHING AND THE MAKINGS OF LITERARY CULTURE

Articles

  • McBurney, Nick – Amulet, Curio, Text: the Bryce Miniature Qur'an

  • Timmermann, Anke – Alchemy in Britain: Sir Hans Sloane's Manuscripts

Art Exhibit Review

  • Lasner, Mark Samuels – Rare Books

Editorial Material

  • Enniss, Stephen – 'Sun Blest' A History of the Festival Publications Poetry Pamphlets

  • Hellinga, Lotte – The Afterlife of Aldus'

  • Potten, Ed – A binding for the Franziskanerkloster Eger, from the Takamiya Collection

  • Tan, Joan Qionglin; Jung, Sandro – William Shenstone, the Book, and the Production of Tasteful Objects

  • Mouillefarine, Eric; Markham, Sheila – Eric Mouillefarine in conversation with Sheila Markham

  • Owen, Richard – The End of Obscenity: Barney Rosset and Grove Press

Biographical-Item

  • Brewer, Peter; Grinke, Paul; Fletcher, Keith; Mott, Rusty; Marr, Ian; Clarke, Simon – Bernard Middleton, designer, bookbinder, book restorer and historian of bookbinding, was born on 24 October 1924 and died on 28 January 2019

  • Brewer, Peter; Grinke, Paul; Fletcher, Keith; Mott, Rusty; Marr, Ian; Clarke, Simon – Martin Woolf Orskey died at his home on December 9th, 2018, aged 93 Obituary