We are delighted to be exhibiting at the 2026 Chelsea Rare Book Fair, which will be taking place on Friday the 30th and Saturday the 31st of October at Chelsea Old Town Hall. This year will mark the 34th edition of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s annual Chelsea Rare Book Fair.
Held annually in the beautiful and historic Chelsea Old Town Hall, this lively Fair brings together more than 80 exhibitors specialising in rare books, first editions, maps, prints, manuscripts and ephemera from all over the world. There’s something for every interest: poetry, children’s classics, modern fiction, gardening, cookery, sport, military, crime, art, architecture, travel.
We are pleased to be able to offer complimentary tickets to the fair: Book your free ticket here
With us on the stand will be a range of books, manuscripts, ephemera and more from across our departments, but we also present here a selection of 30 highlights which we will be taking with us, dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century, and encompassing poetry, fable, music, the religious life, children’s literature, art, hagiography, schoolboy exercises, a voyage to the Arctic, literary biography, Greek and Latin texts, and the Great Fire of London, and featuring some fine bindings and interesting provenances.
We hope you enjoy it and look forward to welcoming you at stand 23 during the fair.