Books, Maps & Prints 2021 (16 May 2021)

Sponsor’s message

• Onwards, upwards and new frontiers

News

• Spitting image: Napoleon mocked
• Three booksellers’ associations open new digital chapter

Interview

• ‘There are more book buyers out there than we realised’

Serio-comic and metamorphic maps

• The mapping of geopolitics

The livre d’artiste

• Collecting the book as art

Letters on a military theme

• Unique piece of the action
• Napoleon’s letter giving orders to invade of England sold at Sotheby's
• Letter describing first-hand horror of Dunkirk sold at Bonhams
• Captain who saved the bacon in Danish attack
• Admiral came to grief four years later

Fairs preview

• A fair to make Brighton rock

Auction Previews

• Upcoming books, maps and prints highlights for summer 2021
• Roald Dahl: ‘Never shelter children from the world’
• Draft of letter at Philadelphia auction shows Churchill’s dilemma over JFK offer

20th century prints

• Printing money: wall power and connoisseurship on a budget
• Learning the market for Grosvenor School
• A Polish printmaker in a Welsh mining village
• The Curwen Studio archive dispersed
• A prime period Nicholson print sells at Dawsons

Calendars

• UK and Irish book auctions
• International book auctions
• UK books fairs
• International book fairs

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