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Explore the rich themes of tearing and cutting in _Inscription 6_, with Buzz Spector's book art, AT Kabe Wilson's exhibit _Copywrong_ and dozens more.

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Frances Wise today.

I co-wrote a novel with my friend Chloë; it came out in hardback in June 2025; it’s published in paperback this week.

Stop Press! New monograph from the Oxford Bibliographical Society: J. C. Ross on Samuel Palmer of London: printer, 1717–1732: his career, printing and ornament use. J. C. Ross’s study of…

It’s an odd temporal tumbling, re-reading a book you read a long time ago.

This morning I was in the London Library – a beautiful, calm place on St James’s Square; Virginia Woolf’s favourite spot; miles of stacks and an Edwardian atmosphere, and you can borrow almost anythin...

ALT: a book called 6 language visual dictionary sits on a shelf with other books

Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…

“Oxford has been doing bibliography in one form or another for at least ten centuries”, Henry Woudhuysen observes in his introduction to this collection

A little while ago I was reading about the late 18th-century English clergyman, biographer and antiquary, Mark Noble (1754-1827), author of several works including Two Dissertations on the Mint and Co...

13 March 1911 (2019) 13 March 1911 (2019) Adam Smyth Perfect bound paperback. H175x W115 mm, 64 pages. Edition of 500. Acquired from Information as Material, 10 October 2020. Although unremarkable …

On my way to the reading room in the National Archives in Kew, I see a set of filing cabinets that carry headings of implausible exactness.