It prints independent opinions on subjects ranging from typography to national heritage policy, from medieval libraries to modern first editions.
It has run series on Unfamiliar Libraries, Literary and Scientific Autographs, Author Societies, Bookbinding, Contemporary Collectors, Bibliophiles, and many other subjects.
[2] The Book Collector was launched by the novelist Ian Fleming[3] in the same year, 1952, that he wrote the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale.
After the death in 1965 of John Davy Hayward, the friend and muse of T. S. Eliot, it was edited for fifty years by Nicolas Barker, sometime publisher and first head of conservation at the British Library.
Muir, read by Rupert Vansittart; "Portrait Of A Bibliophile XVI: John Ruskin 1819–1900" by James S. Dearden; and 'Scribes in Ice and Darkness' by Fergus Fleming.