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Vintage cookbooks are a curious subdivision of the thriving antiquarian trade.

The bookish antiquarians may be held in public affection, but they are not going to stop the Olympics' first ever fluvial overture.

We have serious readers now, as we had before — and we had the serious antiquarian bookshops for them and for serious collectors.

In the mid-19th century, a British antiquarian named Sir Thomas Phillipps announced his intention of owning one copy of every book in the world.

Much of the site at Holm was damaged by antiquarians, without any records being made of what they found.