Tom Ayling

Rarely tweeting about Rare Books.

[Thoughts on Tolkien @tolkienthoughts]

Tom Ayling currently has a copy for sale (£65,000) of one of the rarest Tolkien books in existence: Songs for the Philologists, 1 of only approximately 15 known copies (link in reply for more photos).

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I Uncovered A MAJOR Book Forger

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I like selling Tolkien books. Here's some we've handled in the last year.

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The most fun I've had in a while: An album of medieval manuscript facsimiles begun by St John Hornby, and then taken over by JR Abbey.

In it they pasted in facsimiles of manuscripts they had bought or desired, annotating them with their success and failures in acquiring them

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Oh look it’s me

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

“What is something all men fantasize about?”

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I recently discovered 37 diaries belonging to a soldier of the First World War.

As I began to read the diaries, I came across stories of the horrors of war, and the bravery and sacrifice of the man who wrote them, Major William Henry Tapp.

But what I could not believe was the courage and bravery he showed to help out his fellow soldiers over twenty years after he served in the Great War.

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Making a special delivery

[Damian Thompson @holysmoke]

It’s such a great conversation with young antiquarian book dealer and YouTube star @tomwayling. Learn how much a first edition of The Hobbit will set you back – and how you can buy a page from a medieval for less than £200.

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@rebeccaromney @BBCBreakfast Thank you Rebecca!!

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I spoke about book collecting earlier this morning on @BBCBreakfast

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'What you are experiencing... is the closest thing you get to time travel'

Antiquarian book seller Tom Ayling spoke to #BBCBreakfast about the 'thrill' of a rare first edition after an original Harry Potter book was sold for £36,000

https://t.co/atSB0U5PXJ

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@EEJackson999 Thanks for speaking with me Ellie!

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@macyagilliam Did much of the reach on IG come from Facebook?

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@richdwragg I’d love to join Richard!

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I think of this whenever I see a book from Ewart’s library

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

the ultimate “Lunch with the FT” anecdote

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@Trotter_Tolkien Thank you for a great thread!

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@unapologeticEv Hi sorry to hear this. Not sure what’s happened here as I don’t monitor or delete comments, so if anything’s been removed it must’ve been done by YT

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It was so much fun to speak with Alice, and to really get stuck into this remarkable book

[Alice Loxton @history_alice]

AD | In this week’s ep of A History of the World in Spy Objects, hear antiquarian book expert @tomwayling uncover the hidden truths in a remarkable relic: a book of secret payments, from King William III...

Wherever you get podcasts or here https://t.co/EhaEAC4u7r

#SPYSCAPE

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@PA_Shieldmaiden @hevercastle @kateemccaffrey I have. You can still find me @tomwayling on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and my website is https://t.co/O4Pa0dsWxW - I’ll be posting videos again in earnest from early April 📜📚

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This is Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours, and when I visited @hevercastle, I was guided through its remarkable provenance by @kateemccaffrey, whose research has shed new light on its ownership history

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I'm not sure I can bring myself to imagine what has been CUT OUT

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And as you get deeper into the book, some of the problems are enigmatically illustrated, which lends a certain charm.

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And after a while of staring at the drawing like this: