Found in The Fingerpost: A Guide to Professions for Educated Women, with Information as to Necessary Training (Central Bureau for the Empl...

While many admirers of Anthony Trollope are busy celebrating the great novelist’s bicentenary, spare a thought for his older brother, Thomas...

Found at the front of a book catalogue ('Chat Dept.') of  J.J. Rigden from the Haining collection this well researched piece on Vict...

I came across this oddly named literary coterie quite recently in a catalogue by the august bookseller and writer John Saumarez Smith in a s...

An excellent introduction by Edmund Gosse  to Louis Couperus's 1891 novel Footsteps of Fate ('Noodlot') translated from the ...

The second and last part of this extract from T he Vampire in Literature: a Critical Bibliography (edited by Margaret L. Carter, Ann Arbor,...

When English tourists abroad are accosted by foreigners on trains it is now more likely to be about Manchester United or Downton Abbey. Acco...

At a revolutionary printing office* Found - a review in a 'monthly magazine of bibliography'  Book Lore (1886) of  a new magaz...

This photo, which is inscribed on the reverse, 'Rose Macaulay (centre) and John Hayward' was found amongst a large collection of pre...

Wickham Steed (Bibliotheque Nationale Francaise) [L.R. Reeve* writes:] Somewhere in the world of books there must surely be a biography...

In our researches in the Glenavy papers in various books and online we came across  traces of D.H. Lawrence's plans for a Utopian commun...

Found tipped into the front of Poems of Matthew Arnold (London, 1853) an unpublished  handwritten signed letter from the poet to his French...

Found in a slim volume of verse from 1891 'printed for private circulation' - this poem about The Briar Rose  - a series of 4 relate...

Found - loosely inserted in a copy of his novel A State of Denmark this typescript of an interview with Robin Cook aka Derek Raymond . At o...

Found - an article by Ellery Queen - Some curious changes in  book titles in the omnibus Carrousel for bibliophiles, a treasury of tales, n...

Browsing Ayscough's An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words made use of by Shakspeare ; Calculated to Point Out the Different Mean...

This press-cutting of an obituary was loosely inserted in a copy of Highways and Byways in Surrey (Macmillan, London 1919). It is dated 14/2...

How fashions in literature have changed in 90 years. Look at  this list compiled by ‘FMG’ for the Autumn 1924 issue  of  The First Edition a...

Found in one of our old catalogues this curious satirical work by Martin Geldart  describing the hell of his undergraduate years at Balliol...

Found - Oliver Madox Brown's  novel  Gabriel Denver (London: Smith, Elder 1873) - a late Victorian rarity with Pre Raphaelite Brotherho...