Chester W. Topp. Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks. Vol. 3, John Camden Hotten and Chatto & Windus, Chapman and Hall; Vol. 4, Frederick Warne & Co., Sampson Low & Co. Denver, Colo.: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 1997-1999. ISBN 0963392026 (v.3) 0963392034 (v.4). US$150 each. Readers of Biblionews do not need to be reminded that 'bibliography' can mean … Continue reading Book Review
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The Victorian branch of the Book Collectors' Society holds its meetings to a regular pattern. Usually the first meeting every year is a "Members‟ Night" at which people bring along books and discuss them. This is usually on the last Friday of January, in the supper room of the Royal Society building. In March we … Continue reading Book Collectors' Society of Australia (Victorian Branch) Recent AGM's
Members' Nights are guaranteed to bring out some things of interest as nearly everyone attending will have brought an item or two to talk about. Held in the Royal Society Building Supper Room, with chairs arranged in a circle, they are less formal gatherings than those in the Lecture Theatre upstairs. Going clockwise round the … Continue reading Victorian Branch Members' Night 1999
We have welcomed our copy of Fellows of the Book, and congratulate everyone who worked to produce it. We have a personal connection with one of the essays. In writing of "Two Books For All Seasons" Jon Prance tells of Clare Leighton's Four Hedges, and asks what became of the house and garden in later … Continue reading Some Memories of Four Hedges