We are glad to include in this issue the first of our new series of articles on book-collectors' journals, the more so since we have been able to persuade Dr Desmond Flower to write on one of the finest of such affairs, The Book-Collector's Quarterly, of which he was joint editor with A. J. A. Symons.

Editorial.

'My pursuits are as usual Printing, & Buying, Binding & Repairing MSS,' wrote Sir Thomas Phillipps to his sister-in-law in 1862.

Sir Thomas Phillips and the Middle Hill Press.