Dealers

A book elaborately illustrated with needle-work samples and commemorating Queen Victoria’s first trip to Ireland as monarch was one of the standout sales as 'Firsts London’s Rare Book Fair' opened.

LAPADA has unveiled plans for its 50th anniversary including a summer exhibition and a new series of events around its flagship fair.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Australian pharmaceutical chemist Robert Francis Burke started building his collection of Chelsea and Worcester porcelain in the 1970s, long before the days of the internet.

Annual specialist extravaganza held in Paris involves galleries, auction houses and museums

Simon Rastall, one of the exhibitors at the recent Annual Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, runs Rastall Art, which specialises in 20th century paintings.

Gallery with family connections stages a show 150 years on from Paris exhibition where the art movement began

Brocantes bring a taste of summer to the nation's country houses – here are two to attend this year

Antique arms and armour dealers and auctioneers have come together to lobby against couriers restricting delivery of antique examples.

This miniature 17th century psalter in a contemporary pierced and engraved openwork silver binding is priced at £15,000 by Bernard Quaritch at Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair.

Ilka Gansera-Levegue of Art & Horse Racing Gallery in Newmarket. She will be exhibiting at Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair from May 17-19.

Designs promoting exhibitions can be a great way to collect on a tight budget

New Orleans art, antiques and jewellery firm MS Rau is expanding and will open a second seasonal location in Colorado, on June 6.

First editions are not always the be-all and end-all for collecting

Jewellery specialist Hancocks London is celebrating its move to a new, larger premises. Leaving Mayfair after 175 years, the dealer has opted for St James’ (as revealed in ATG No 2631).

Art dealer Philip Mould and interior designer Edward Bulmer first met in their early 20s while students at East Anglia University and have remained friends ever since.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Georgian period carried not only prayer books and bibles, but also books of poems and the annual miniature almanacs containing practical information on everything from the phases of the moon to the currency exchange rates of Europe.