Membersarea

This part of our site is primarily for the benefit of members and may one day become a password-protected area. We considered making the Directory of Members available online, so that it would be up to date, but many members do not have access to the internet.
A Members Handbook dated January 2016 was sent to members with our Autumn 2015 journal.

SPECIAL AUCTION NO.99 ENDED AT 13:00 GMT ON 25 NOVEMBER 2023

Bidding on Auction 99 is now over. Replacing the usual October and December auctions, this single sale was unusually large. Its highlight was the offering of work by master engraver Stephen Gooden, from the collection of the late William Hallam Webber of Gaithersburg, Maryland. Of especial note were the rare prints of royal bookplates, most of which have never previously featured in the Society's auctions and which are close to being unobtainable in commercial auctions or elsewhere.

For Lots 610 onward, this auction was opened to non-members, who had to register with the auctioneer. A buyer's premium of 15% applied to sales to non-members. This premium goes (without deduction) to Hal Webber's widow. For this purpose a non-member was anyone who was not a member of the Society on 11 September 2023.

Other choice items included the bookplates of Charles Dickens (Lot 105), Ivor Novello (Lot 106), Dudley Carew by Evelyn Waugh (Lot 128), Sir Charles Frederick's trophy armorial (Lot 134), potter William Moorcroft (lot 140), and numerous ex-libris by leading engravers, including GT Friend and a wide selection of quality work (mostly large paper proofs) by American bookplate artist William Fowler Hopson (Lots 375 to 406).

Please go to the separate webpage for Auction 99. Any question about this online auction should be sent to its organiser, Anthony Pincott (address on Contacts page).

Our Auctions Secretary is Peter McGowan, to whom all general auction correspondence should please be sent (address on Contacts page).

DESIDERATA
We have opened a webpage giving a list of Wants by members. To get to this, go to the URL box at the top of this page and type Desiderata.htm in place of membersarea.htm

THE JOHN SIMPSON COLLECTION
A former member who died tragically in 2004, John Simpson was an assiduous collector not only of books on fishing but also of John Simpson produced his own bookplates. The Society has possibly a few copies available at £6 each post free (UK) early bookplates, especially typographic labels, Early Armorials and Jacobean style bookplates. Results of the auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 17 May 2005 are at www.bonhams.com and were included in the Society's June newsletter. Some 23,000 bookplates sold for £63,000. An offprint of the catalogue was circulated to members, and further copies are available for purchase by non-members Click here. John Simpson produced these two bookplates for himself, and they are discussed in our Autumn 2012 journal. From time to time the Society has a few prints available, at £6 each (post free to UK).