Younger movie goers may remember him as the irascible elderly wedding guest (‘ Don’t you think I know my own brother ?’ ) in Four Weddings ...

Extract from  The Flurried Years -  Violet Hunt's account of her life between 1908 and 1914. A languid airless summer, rife with L...

Stumbled across the art writer Frank Rutter's rare little work Revolution in Art (Art News Press, London 1910) and noticed it was prese...

A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT. EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS. No good ; too poor, and know too much. Stop ,—if you h...

The left leaning American-born political satirist Andrew Roth (1919 – 2010) produced these handy guides to the Commons personnel from 195...

An impressivee  rant against war by the Nobel Prize winning French scientist Charles Richet published about 1925 in his book  Idiot Man or ...

A splendid work lent to Jot101 by a visitor: Fancy Cycling : Trick Riding for Amateurs / by Isabel Marks.[Sands, London 1901] From Ms Mark...

A signed presentation from the poet  John Betjeman to the cartoonist (Carl) Giles: 'The mighty cartoonist Carl Giles is [Summoned by B...

I had been reading about nicknames coined by Swinburne for some of his contemporaries - Fuxton Boreman for Buxton Forman and Soddington Sym...

From a small book Little Inns of Soho (1948) this review of one of the few London Indian restaurants at that time. The book is by Penelop...

There are at least two other well known Kate Middletons. The American (or possibly Australian) Dr. Kate Middleton author of Stress How to ...

An old list (a 24 page pamphlet) put out by a superior antiquarian bookshop ( Walter T. Spencer)  in 1920s London. The bookseller has noted ...

I have found a curious pamphlet from the rather neglected Mill House Press which was run by Edward Gathorne- Hardy whose pic is below. Print...

Found this ad in a pulp magazine Clues - A Magazine of Detective Stories  from November 10 1930. The advertiser pleads: Help! Who can ...

This is an edited  reposting from our sister site Bookride  first posted in June 2007. Sotheby's NY is selling a copy in November 2013 ...