Tag: Bertram Rota Limited
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Dogs, manuscripts and ephemera
I’ve realised I can set my watch by the Great Spotted Woodpecker. She arrives each morning between 10.20 and 10.25 and feeds for about five minutes. Mostly, the smaller birds hang back but not one brave Great Tit who joined the GSW at the feeder this morning. The photo shows her with her tail curved…
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One hundred years of bookselling. December 2023, the original version
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. December 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. November 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. October 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. September 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. August 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. July 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. June 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. May 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. April 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. March 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling. January 2023
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited , founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings”…
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One hundred years of bookselling – an introduction and quick guide
2023 was the centenary year of our bookshop, Bertram Rota Limited, founded by my grandfather. His uncles, who gave him his first job, and their father were booksellers too. My father took the helm in 1966 and I joined the business in 1995. In modest celebration, I wrote and sent to customers “monthly musings” all…
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Rude Poems
Herrick (Robert). The Hesperides & Noble Numbers [Works] . Edited by Alfred Pollard, with a preface by A.C. Swinburne. Engraved frontispiece. Lawrence & Bullen, The Muses’ Library, 1891. First Edition thus. One of 200 numbered Large Paper copies. Two volumes. Quarter parchment, spines lettered in gilt, . green cloth sides, top edge gilt, others uncut. …
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Brian Phelan, Rest in Peace, 1934-2024
Brian Phelan died, at home, a few days ago on May 8th. His stepson, Josh, was kind enough to let me know almost straight away. I had seen quite a bit of Brian over the last few months. We first met some twenty years ago. My wife, eldest and then only daughter and I went…
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Pixie Bks
During our firm of booksellers’ centenary last year, I sent out monthly reminiscences and reflections on my time in the trade. The March issue was about Private Presses, where I wrote this: For many years we operated, for two American universities, Brigham Young (under the leadership of Scott Duvall) and Wisconsin-Madison (Yvonne Schofer), a ‘blanket…
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Books Old & New: Hilary Mantel
For many years our firm of booksellers handled the sale of Dame Hilary’s archive. During our centenary last year I sent out monthly musings and this was my account of our dealings with her. … Finally, this is the story of the archive of Dame Hilary Mantel. I name her because she fully expected me…
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Books Old & New: one hundred years of bookselling
This is from the history page of our book business website. In 1923, just before his twentieth birthday, Bertram Rota started bookselling on the Charing Cross Road. From 1918 he had apprenticed to his uncles Percy and Arthur Dobell, in their father Bertram Dobell’s bookshop which dated back to 1876. From the outset, he specialised…