Death by reading This short list of books takes as its starting point the youthful, Romantic figure of Henry Kirke White. Dying in 1806 before he could become famous, White was the subject of a nineteenth-century cult fostered by Robert Southey and among whose devotees were Keats, Byron, Shelley and...
Welcome to the New Year and our first short list of 2023 designed to cheerus up, wipe away our tears get us leaping out of bed. Fairies and physics, Japanese and Czech design, an American President and a Russian Emperor, satire and scholarship. Click on the picture of the Elfin Dance...
Click on the all-seeing eye for a short list of a dozen books to see you through these early spring days. The oldest book was published in 1499, the newest in 2013. Quite a spread. And with letters from Plato and Alexander the Great as well as an annotated poem...
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...
We all know that books are beautiful objects, but some, let’s be honest, are more beautiful than others. Our latest short list brings together some stunning bindings made for Princes and Emperors, a very stylish work for a spy who played in a skiffle band, Edward Gibbon’s copy of a...
