Ex Libris: Bookplates at Chetham’s
Bookplate collecting is a serious business. There is a plethora of collections and collectors lurking in private and in the public domain and, it seems, an entire world devoted to...
Bookplate collecting is a serious business. There is a plethora of collections and collectors lurking in private and in the public domain and, it seems, an entire world devoted to...
Senior Librarian Fergus Wilde recently took the opportunity to enjoy the view from a platform sixty feet above Chetham’s medieval buildings. The on-site arrival of a cherry picker for the...
This extremely rare, possibly unique, example of local print culture was bought from the bookseller Christian White of Modern First Editions, Ilkley. The work shows that the fascination for celebrity...