Bibliomania | Michael Caines | Substack

The art of the book, 1938

This comes a week late, but April 2 is a significant date in book history: it marks the anniversary of Jan Tschichold’s birth, in 1902.

Apr 9 •

Snooping around

I’d been warned.

Mar 26 •

Equation versus gasteropod

Not everyone, I suspect, will be wholly thrilled to hear that there is such a thing as a “technical approach” to book-collecting.

Mar 19 •

The great escape?

Booksellers, then and now

Mar 12 •

Little money, many books

The ingenious book-jacket designs of Keith Cunningham

Mar 5 •

Mad about books?

Recent posts

A reader of Robert Lowell

“No one buys books any more, do they?

Feb 26 •

Half a bookshelf?

The women writers who shaped the 'legend' of Jane Austen, according to Rebecca Romney

Feb 18 •

Auctioning Dame Edna's books

Barry Humphries and his unique collection

Feb 11 •

James Joyce's readers

February 2 was the anniversary of James Joyce’s birth (in 1882).

Feb 4 •

"The ninth-century Bede, sir . . ."

Meeting Sir Thomas Phillipps

Jan 28 •

On being defeated by some poetry pamphlets

Jan 21 •

Book destruction in fact and fiction

Jan 14 •

Price (sic) and Prejudice

Building a Jane Austen collection

Jan 8 •

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