Keep a list of the books you are looking for, a particular edition or a broader subject. We check each new acquisition against it and tell you when one matches.

A free membership for collectors of books, manuscripts and works of art.
Members keep their list of wanted books with us, receive 10% off three works we select each month, and can ask us anything about a work.
Sign in with your email address and a one-time code. There is no password.
Tell us what you collect. When a work comes in that fits, we write to you.
Keep a list of the books you are looking for, a particular edition or a broader subject. We check each new acquisition against it and tell you when one matches.
Ask for a condition report, more photographs or the provenance of any work, and keep the answers in one place. Ask for a private viewing by video. If you want to sell a significant work, we reply within seven days.
Three works on how we see colour and image, from a seventeenth-century emblem book with sixty etchings to Goethe's theory of colours and an early study of colour blindness with a letter from James Clerk Maxwell. Members receive selections like this, chosen around what they collect.



Sign in with your email address and the six-digit code Shopify sends you. Then tell us what you collect, and your member pages open.
Membership is free, and you may leave at any time.
Members receive 10% off the listed price of works we mark as eligible. Each month we mark three. Works priced on request, the Heribert Tenschert Collection and specialist services are not included.
This month: Researches on Colour-Blindness, with Maxwell's letter on colour vision; Zweig, Marie Antoinette, the first English edition in a Bayntun-Rivière binding; Wilde, De Profundis, on Fabriano handmade paper.
Collecting is itself an act, and an art, of creation.