Bath Book Fair
Blueberry Books is exhibiting at the Bath Book Fair on Saturday 6th October! You can get your complimentary tickets here. #BlueberryBooks...
Blueberry Books is Two Years Old! - 20% off Sale to celebrate.
It really does not feel that long ago that the first book was catalogued, but it has been two years and I could not be happier. Over the...
Bindings - The Basics
​​​​ There are many types of bindings for books, but I would say that in essence books are bound in cloth, paper, leather or vellum,...
The Bookplate Journal, Autumn 2017. Part III.
This is the third and final part of my blog posts on the latest edition of the Bookplate Journal. In Bookplate identification: an aid to...
The Bookplate Journal, Autumn 2017. Part II.
An extensive article by Anthony Pincott entitled Identifying English bookplates. At 33 pages it takes up a significant portion of the 80...
The Bookplate Journal, Autumn 2017. Part I.
I recently received my copy of The Bookplate Journal and wanted to write a post about it as this particular issue seems to be a good...
Wood Engraving and Thomas Bewick
In the early years of the printing press illustrations used to be woodcuts. The image would be cut along the grain with both the text and...
Chained Libraries
One of the things I want to do is visit all of the chained libraries in England. So far I have only visited the one in Hereford as every...
Euclid, the Father of Geometry
At Blueberry Books we have a couple of books relating to Euclid and felt it worth writing a little post about the father of geometry. He...