Photo books have been a significant part of what we offer since Simon Finch opened his bookshop in Notting Hill in the 1990s. This short list contains a selection from our shelves and gives a indication of the range of photography books that we carry. We hope you enjoy it.The books can be purchased from...
This is the first Catalogue from Voewood Rare Books. In the spirit of the house, it is eclectic, idiosyncratic, perhaps slightly anarchic and, we hope, interesting and arresting. It ranges widely from Elizabethan food to Pop Art, Alexander Macmillan's own copy of Westward Ho! (the first novel published...
Two hundred years ago, in July 1817, a somewhat eccentric, chaotic and occasionally brilliant collection of poems was published under the Delphic title, Sibylline Leaves. Its eccentric, chaotic and frequently brilliant author S.T. Coleridge, wrote, in the preface to the work, that it “contains the whole of [my]...
Among the joys and privileges of being based at Voewood is working against the backdrop of one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses. There is a short introduction to the house elsewhere on the website but I started to think a little more about the construction of the house when...
Voewood Rare Books is a new venture born from an old one. Many of you may remember the second-hand bookshop at Fish Hill in Holt, originally owned by Simon Gough and more recently by Simon Finch under the name Voewood Art and Books. We decided to move out of the...
