This Month - Trade Directories- contributed by Adam

What is a Trade Directory? If, like me, you happen to have been born after 1970, then you may not have come across them before. Simply put, they are the old fashioned equivalent of the Telephone Directories and Yellow Pages rolled into one book.

The earliest known directory of London merchants was published in 1677 and is kept in the Guildhall Library in London. However it was not until 1781 that the first national directory was published. It was the industrial revolution and the growth of the British Empire that boosted the publication of directories. Before the second world war the directories were typically .......Read More

Featured Book - Goblin Market - contributed by Chris

Goblin Market - a familiar title but a poem that I knew only from my interest in the books illustrated by Arthur Rackham, of which Goblin Market is one. Having decided to write an article featuring this book I thought perhaps I'd better read the poem in its entirety. And what a surprise awaited me!

Goblins - the very word conjures up images of fairy tales, mythical little creatures, magical happenings. Goblin Market, published in 1862 and the longest of Christina Rossetti's poems, has enjoyed a reputation as one of the finest of children's poems.... Read More

More books about Statistics

Other Picture Books

Other Countryside books.

Price: £25.00

A selection of other Boys School Stories

1st ed. 1972. Three volumes. Covering all known indigenous species in the Republic of South Africa, South-West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland.

Price: £245

1st ed. 1923 Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Large format. Pictorial boards, B/w illustrations throughout. x and 50 pages. A nice copy of a scarce book.

Price: £780

1st 1936. Published by Oxford University Press. Beige cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour lithographs throughout. A very nice copy of an early Ardizzone book.

Price: £240

News in Brief

Among the books recently purchased and catalogued we have William books by Richmal Crompton, Billy Bunter titles by Frank Richards and a large selection of Edward Ardizzone titles. We have also catalogued more Motor Sport, Genealogy, Maths and Batfords (inc. Brian Cook wrappers).

Private buyer scoops Woolf's 'Lighthouse Beach' -
The Cornish Bay that is said to have inspired Virginia Woolf's most famous novel - 'To The Lighthouse' has been sold to a buyer from London. The new owner has bought 71 acres of the Cornish beach, which stretches from Hale to the lighthouse on Godrevy Island.

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