Works with a licence to thrill

Fine collection of British modern novels amassed over decades includes earliest editions with dust jackets

Horseracing museum acquires trio of Wootton works

Three equine portraits by the British artist John Wootton

Hong Kong auctions get off to an auspicious start

Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s Asian Art Week was led by

Search for Scandinavian fishing villages also nets unrecorded photo of Oscar Wilde

A seemingly unrecorded photograph of the poet and playwright

Antique glass and Islamic astrolabe set records in spring sales

Two auction records were broken during the London spring

New fair sprinkles stardust to revive north London scene

With the demise of Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors

Blooming marvellous: Morris makes it to £180,000 with help of 27 species

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric

Museum appeals for portrait funds

Above: portrait of John Ystumllyn, an oil painting on

Descendant consigns two prime minister pics

Portraits of the third and fourth prime ministers of

A trunk call for traditional toys

From an elephant gun team to a double-decker and general on a hobby horse, good prices are still paid

Taken up a peg or two

An early 19th century wooden peg doll featuring the

Your O Gauge Hornby train set may not be worth much now but individual models can build up a head of steam

Prices for Hornby 0 Gauge clockwork railway toys have

Vichy automaton bears fruit in the saleroom

Gustave Vichy was born in 1839 to a Parisian

Scalextric Bugattis slot into the highest auction price bracket

Back in October 2024 Lewes saleroom Wallis & Wallis

Dressed to kilt, a £15,000 Highlander

The association of native American and Scottish Highlander advertising

Answering the siren’s call

Kosuge (Kosuge Toy Industrial Co Ltd), with the trademark

Tunnard toasted by new admirers

Newcastle saleroom says response to single-owner collection shows fresh buyers coming to the market

Quentin Blake originals bring back fond memories

Arabel and her anarchic pet raven, Mortimer, were first

Previews

On May 20 Exeter saleroom Bearnes Hampton &

Celebrating 10 years of growth with anniversary auctions in July

It is now 10 years since we started

First days of the US and much more

Ahead of a very busy period for the trade, we kick off our four-page guide to the events coming up with a London fair marking the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. Previews compiled

From Alehouse to Away End

On how many different journeys can an old

London Original Print Fair

What: Now in its 41st edition, the London Original

Bloomsbury Summer Book Fair

What: This is an annual special event from Etc

London Map Fair

Below: Maps Perhaps offers for £1550 The Countie Pallatine

Ephemera Society Fair

Left: one of four posters designed by Duncan Grant

Dublin Rare Book Fair

What: Dublin stages its first antiquarian book fair since

PBFA London

What: One of the largest annual events for the

Photo London

Right: Galerie Peter Sillem of Frankfurt brings Ute

Judging by its cover

Come and see us at firsts s tand B17

Keeping it in the Fleming family

Ian Fleming’s scions will be at Firsts London book fair this year, as they continue to play an important part in both promoting their relative’s books and book collecting as a whole. Peter Crush reports

No to Dr No: ‘basically very old-fashioned Fu Manchu stuff’

James Bond may well now be a hugely popular multi-billion earning film franchise but a group of rare reports by a film studio evaluating the original books show the raw reaction was one of rejection and even ridicule. Frances Allitt interviews the dealer now selling these fascinating snapshots of the 007 world

‘Interest is far, far bigger than even I imagined’

Tom Ayling is an antiquarian book dealer based

Book buying is such a blast

Callum White, a young book collector from Birmingham, won last year’s ABA National Book Collecting Prize awarded in December for his collection Splitting the world: The atomic scientists and their second acts . He told ATG about his background, how he started the collection and his plans for it.

Samuel Palmer and printmaking: the other side of his creativity

Ahead of a new exhibition at a London gallery, Alex Capon takes a closer look at the renowned Romantic artist’s later work and the market that now exists via auction houses and dealerships

Dealer describes why Palmer works ‘are thrilling physical objects for anyone who loves prints’

Among the dealerships offering prints by Samuel Palmer this

Auction previews

The timed online Library sale ending on May 20

Quirky and eclectic is what the new Cotswolds homeowners want

“It’s unlike any other fair – there’s a different type of person that comes to this one”, says dealer Ian Slade

Heron at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert

London gallery holds its second exhibition since it started to represent the artist’s estate six years ago

News in brief

Right: George Claessen, Transmission , 1980, acrylic on board,

Actor star value pushes up prices

Collection of popular and well-respected Austrian figure puts in a notable performance at auction

Roman torso and ‘Cycladic’ figure stand out for bidders

The modest reserve of €2500 for the 13in (34cm)

Sixteenth century Old Master sleepers awake in Switzerland

In recent sales at Artcurial, Bailly, Beurret and Widner

Cracking price for rare crackled Primavera glass

Vases and other vessels employing the Primavera technique belong

8 + 61 = a successful business launch

Two dealers opened shop and centre at the same time

‘Rummage paradise’ ready to go

In ATG No 2738 we featured Wiltshire-based Natalia Rawley

Push the boat out in Henley

Judy, Lady McAlpine is looking for more vintage traders

Joining offer from the Ephemera Society packed with promise

Every visitor to the summer edition of the Ephemera

Obituary – Dr Ittai Gradel

It is with great sadness that the many friends

Thank you ATG for a ‘wonderful Kaleidoscope of fascinating art and objects’ in my retirement

I would like to add my tribute to the

Lucius at a new location

Right: Lucius Books’ new premises in York. James Hallgate’s

Obituary – Peter Coulborn (1939-2026)

Peter Coulborn, a long-time figure in the British antiques