Found in one of our catalogues from 2002 a very limited and exquisite edition of Djuna Barnes's The Ladies Almanack . It was found by Ma...

Found in a collection of other examples, this is rather dull little bookplate, considering it came from the library of Laurence Ambrose ...

Found - this emblematic title page by John Droeshout in TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT AND DISCOVERED BY TIME, or, A discourse and Historicall Narra...

In about 2007 we acquired  a collection of books from the estate a kinsman of the Heber-Percy family in a cottage close to the country ...

Sent in by Hertfordshire's top jotter Robin Healey for which much thanks. The tradition of writing family histories appears to be a...

Found in this comprehensive work aimed at serious travellers, explorers and survivalists - a letter about pemmican. The book is a two volum...

Found in an 1889 edition of Badeker's Southern Italy this description of the Blue Grotto at Capri: Blue Grotto. — A visit to...

There is a variant British version of the last tale from America... A small provincial bookseller is called to a substantial mansion on t...

Sent in by Stateside jot watcher JK this piece of fascinating second hand book folklore... The first time I heard it, it concerned a de...

Sent in by jot watcher RMH (a man who knows a bad book magazine when he sees one) this neat analysis of why magazines fail. The Alan Od...

This is the (not entirely apocryphal) tale of the young dealer who bought a first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations for £90,000 ...

Found - in A Bunch of Blue Ribbons.A Volume of Cambridge Essays [Collected by I. Rose. London: Chapman & Hall, 1933] a satirical poem la...

Found in Windfall and Waterfall (Williams & Norgate, London 1894) a volume of poetry by Auberon Herbert  - an advertisement for his...

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

Found in the front of an 1866 first edition of Swinburne's   Poems and Ballads (Moxon) this cutting from a catalogue from about 1920. Th...