Prints, Maps and Books
Japanese Woodblock Prints and How to Spot a Later Reprint
Every few weeks someone brings me a framed Hiroshige snow scene from a house clearance, certain it is worth a small fortune...
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Spotting reproductions, understanding condition grades and edition sizes, and what makes a Victorian bookbinding worth keeping.
Prints, Maps and Books
Every few weeks someone brings me a framed Hiroshige snow scene from a house clearance, certain it is worth a small fortune...
Prints, Maps and Books
At a provincial sale a few years ago, two copies of the same 1790s botanical engraving sold twenty minutes apart.
Prints, Maps and Books
A framed county map turns up in almost every house clearance sale I have ever viewed.
Prints, Maps and Books
A framed county map arrives on my table about once a month with the same story attached.
Prints, Maps and Books
I catalogued a private library in Norfolk in 2018 that contained roughly 1,200 Victorian bindings.
Prints, Maps and Books
The oldest tarot deck I have handled personally was a Marseille-pattern deck printed in Belgium around 1875, in a small...