Blog posts by Daniel Wechsler
March 3, 2018 | by Daniel Wechsler
New York Antiquarian Book Fair 2018
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair is just around the corner. Please join us at Booth B2, beginning Thursday, March 8, from 5-9pm. The show at the Park Avenue Armory @ 67th Street runs through Sunday March 11. Don’t miss out on this wonderful annual event and the greatest book fair in the world! Please see our catalogue a taste of some of what we will be exhibiting.
February 28, 2017 | by Daniel Wechsler
NEW YORK BOOK FAIR – 2017
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair has moved to March this year, and is just around the corner. Please join us at Booth B3, beginning Thursday, March 9, from 5-9pm. The show at the Park Avenue Armory @ 67th Street runs through Sunday March 12, with Friday hours from noon-8pm, Saturday from noon-7pm, and Sunday from noon-5pm. Don’t miss out on this wonderful annual event and the greatest book fair in the world! Here is a taste of some of what we will be exhibiting: MODERN LITERATURE … Read More
October 16, 2014 | by Daniel Wechsler
On Shakespeare’s Beehive
Over the past six-and-a-half years, I have been preoccupied with a single book, a copy of the second edition of John Baret’s Alvearie or Quadruple Dictionarie, printed in London by Henry Denham in 1580. I genuinely believe it to be a dictionary that once belonged to, and was fully annotated by, William Shakespeare. Confessing to this belief makes the preoccupation understandable. Believing in such a book is, of course, one thing. Proving, or even making a compelling argument for the claim, is another. Long prior to … Read More
October 14, 2014 | by Daniel Wechsler
A World Between Covers
Essay by Jed Perl, originally published in Strange & Wonderful: An Informal Visual History of Manuscript Books and Albums . What is a book? A book is a world between covers, a realm of fact or fiction or some combination of the two. A book is a distillation of experience, a record of our world turned into a world unto itself. Most books, at least most of the books that we have around us today, certainly most of the ones in the room where I am sitting as I write these words, were produced on a printing press. … Read More