It was the first visit of Jazz legend Lionel Hampton to England and one of his gigs was seemingly at Hanley Town Hall in north Staffordshire...

Found among a pile of sheet music 3 Titanic items. They incorporate several mythic (but not necessarily untrue) stories around the disaster-...

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

J.H. Slater's Book Collecting - A Guide for Amateurs (Swan Sonnenschein, London 1892) concludes with a still useful chapter - 'B...

Found in a box of books is this photocopy of a typewritten guide to a ‘pub crawl’ (walk no 41) of various late Victorian ‘gin palaces’ in No...

The Saturday Book (1950) 10th Anniversary edition has this quite modern sounding interview/ blurb printed on the inside flaps of its jac...

Found -- this pamphlet from the 1930s put out by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde  (1881 -1950.) As Wikipedia notes, she had a fairly standard house...

Found - a bookplate or possibly heraldic design for a coat of arms. Among some bookplates and ephemera but printed rather than engraved...

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...

General Montgomery, Idi Amin and various Japanese emperors had doubles, and so it seems did the screen siren Greta Garbo. Her name was Jeral...

This was a mimeographed typescript found in a book on World War 1 art. Many thanks to J. Wood Palmer.    Self Portrait 1913 INTRODUC...

A great camping book from about 1911, positively evangelical in its emphasis on the joys of life under canvas. The author is not to be confu...

 Found in Intellectual Growth in Young Children by Susan Isaacs (Routledge, London 1930) this collection of children's questions. Susan...

Found - in a paperback novel from the 1980s this press cutting. It is from a glossy magazine (possibly Electronics World ) and is a letter f...

Found - a publisher's flyer loosely inserted in a copy of Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie's   Mithraic Mysteries (Platonist Press, Alpine, N....