Alex Johnson

This week's Rare Book of the Week comes up for auction at Christie’s in its spring sale of Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on May 1, an extremely rare
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.
A campaign to keep the Lake District home of William Wordsworth open to the public rather than being privately
Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese has reveal
An important archive of Alan Turing's unpublished Second World War papers has
Reseachers examining volumes held by European monasteries have revealed that rather than deer or boar skin, sealskin was used in their construction. The findings have been laid out in Hiding in plain…
Highlights of the autographs portion of the April 10 Autographs & Subculture auction at Swann Galleries include:  
Highlights from the Bernard Quaritch,
Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.
This week's Rare Book of the Week is copy of the first Astronomer Royal