Art, Design, Architecture and Illustrated Books A wide ranging look at the visual arts. Books by and about artists from the good but unfashionable (such as John Lavery) to the fashionable but not so good (such as ....). Many are signed (Henry Moore, Frank Stella, Oldenburg, Hirst, Jasper Johns and...
A List of Countercultural Books, Prints, Magazines and Photographs Our latest list is close to the heart of Simon Finch Rare Books and, now, Voewood Rare Books. We take the view that (subject to certain limits) most of what has been printed or written is fair game for the book...
Photo books have been a significant part of what we offer since Simon Finch opened his bookshop in Notting Hill in the 1990s. This short list contains a selection from our shelves and gives a indication of the range of photography books that we carry. We hope you enjoy it.The books can be purchased from...
This is the first Catalogue from Voewood Rare Books. In the spirit of the house, it is eclectic, idiosyncratic, perhaps slightly anarchic and, we hope, interesting and arresting. It ranges widely from Elizabethan food to Pop Art, Alexander Macmillan's own copy of Westward Ho! (the first novel published...
Two hundred years ago, in July 1817, a somewhat eccentric, chaotic and occasionally brilliant collection of poems was published under the Delphic title, Sibylline Leaves. Its eccentric, chaotic and frequently brilliant author S.T. Coleridge, wrote, in the preface to the work, that it “contains the whole of [my]...
