The Book Collector
Archived since
No. 1, 1947
300 issues
Complete Archive
Quarterly
The Book Collector is a quarterly journal, in print and online, offering 192 pages per issue of wit, pleasure and knowledge on all aspects of the book through all ages. We have anything up to ten articles every time, book reviews, obituaries, prices at book auctions and a section on world-wide book chat. We’ve produced special issues on Ian Fleming (our founder), Polar Exploration and Women among Books. Our online archive, which goes back to 1947, is a resource for both students and academics that’s second to none.
Latest issue
This is the last issue from our much-loved editor, James Fleming, who passed away on 22 November 2024 after a sudden illness.
James took on The Book Collector as proprietor in 2016 and later editor in 2018, returning the publication to the Fleming fold having been founded by his uncle, Ian Fleming in 1953. James loved his work and the journal with a passion and felt very much at home in the world of book collecting, making many friends around the world.
James would want to see The Book Collector continuing for many years to come. We, the editorial board and his family, have every intention of following his vision and dedication to this beloved journal which will continue in Spring 2025.
Contents for Winter 2024:
- English Language Editions and Impressions of The Interpretation of Dreams, 1913–33 Roger Willoughby
- An Engineering Book Collection: Nuances and Shades Mark Andrews
- Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Shooting Stars, Part 2 Sandro Jung
- Thomas Gray’s Commonplace Book James Fleming
- Pouncing Paper Desirée Taylor
- The Stuart and Mimi Rose Rare Book Gallery at The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC Daniel de Simone
- A Missing Manuscript of Thomas Wimbledon’s Sermon A.S.G. Edwards
- Charles B. Wood III, The Markham Interviews (New Series) 32 Sheila Markham
- PMM and Scribner’s Book Store Revisited Sandy Malcolm
- Collecting Wood-Engraved Gift Books of the Mid-Victorian Period Simon Cooke
- Collecting Illuminated Addresses Jeremy Knight
- Lost Friends, Part 10 Brian Alderson
- A Binding by Morley of Oxford (c.1894) for Emily Daniel: English and Foreign Bookbindings, 156 Marianne Tidcombe
Subjects: Arts, Books, Culture, Literature
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- First Issue: No. 1, 1947
- Latest Issue: Winter 2024
- Issue Count: 300
- Published: Quarterly
