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ABA Summer Exhibition 2008: Women and the Book
From 8 to 20 August Quaritch will be hosting a major selling exhibition, presented jointly by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association and the Women’s Library, on the theme of women and the printed word. 370 items have been consigned by over 50 members of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, the oldest trade association of its kind in the world. Covering literature, women in the book trade, science and medicine, politics, travel and children’s books, the exhibition will include books and related items by, for or about women, or printed, illustrated and bound by women: from an example of Dame Juliana Berners’ Boke of St Albans printed by Caxton’s successor Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster in 1496 to a 1997 proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. Alongside first editions by literary heavyweights such as Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf are ephemeral items such as Suffragette board games and presentation and association copies, such as a copy of Notes on Hospitals inscribed by Florence Nightingale. The price range is £40 to £75,000. The Women’s Library will be displaying a selection of highlights from their special collections, and there will be a catalogue and two free lectures accompanying the exhibition. Opening hours: Admission: free
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