Tag: book illustrations

Is it real? How much is it worth? These are the two questions I am asked most frequently as a watch specialist. Twenty years ago, I would never have been asked seriously whether a watch was genuine or counterfeit. Fake watches were bought cheaply on a foreign beach, and by the end of your holiday, […]

It is not often that one gets the opportunity to stand and gaze upon the first folio of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies printed in 1623, but there I was in a small room at the Globe Theatre, staring in awe at what has been described as the most influential book ever printed […]