In recent years book decoration has become a popular interior design trend.
Used, old books are a great investment, not just for reading but for decorative purposes as well. Vintage old books can give warmth and depth to your home decor.
Books are not necessarily the first items that comes to mind when thinking of Interior Decorating but books are fantastic decorative objects. They Create Warm Inviting Spaces and they are excellent backgrounds for Photography and have you noticed they are always Extras in All the Great Movies?!
If you are looking for 50 or A thousand books to complete your home library, or books for Props or you are an interior designer in need of a supplier, we can help you find exactly what you are looking for.
Filling a Shelf could not be easier! Our Books are pre 1960s...
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Prices Start as Low as £1 per book - 50 mixed Vintage Hardback Books Can be Delivered to Your Door for £50.00 - Yes, including Delivery!
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Not only can we help you create The Look that is right for you, but we can supply the books! We are always happy to help , please don't hesitate to contact us!
You are Welcome to browse our auctions to get an idea of the kind of books we stock. At Times collections may be offered at auction.
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Decorating With Books
Saturday, 20 October 2007
Book Collecting
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given individual collector. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and collect books is a bibliophile. Bibliophilia is sometimes called bibliomania but should not be confused with the obsessive-compulsive disorder by that name, which involves the excessive accumulation and hoarding of books. The term bookman, which once meant a studious or scholarly man, now means one who writes, edits, publishes, or sells books. A book dealer is one whose profession is the buying and reselling of rare or used books.
True book collecting is distinct from casual book ownership and the accumulation of books for reading. It can probably be said to have begun with the collections of illuminated manuscripts, both commissioned and second-hand, by the elites of Burgundy and France in particular, which became common in the 15th century. Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy appears to have had the largest private collection of his day, with about six hundred volumes. With the advent of printing with movable type books became considerably cheaper, and book collecting received a particular impetus in England and elsewhere during the Reformation when many monastic libraries were broken up, and their contents often destroyed. There was an English antiquarian reaction to Henry VIII's dissolution of the Monasteries. The commissioners of Edward VI plundered and stripped university, college, and monastic libraries, so to save books from being destroyed, those who could began to collect them.
Book collecting can be easy and inexpensive: there are millions of new and used books, and thousands of bookstores, including online booksellers like Abebooks, Alibris, and Amazon. Only the wealthiest book collectors pursue the great rarities: the Gutenberg Bible, and Shakespeare's First Folio, for example, are both famous and extremely valuable. Collectors of average means may collect works by a favorite author, first editions of modern authors, or books on a given subject. Book prices generally depend on the demand for a given book, the number of copies available, and their condition.
Thursday, 18 October 2007
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
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