Ballot Archive

28 Nov 2024

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Matthew Haley

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA (Oxon)

Profession or occupation

Auctioneer, Head of Books, and Managing Director of Knightsbridge, Bonhams

Grounds for election

Matthew Haley joined Bonhams in 2004 and is Head of the UK Book and Manuscript Department and Managing Director of the Knightsbridge saleroom. His particular expertise is in Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. He is President of the Private Libraries Association, a registered charity and society for book collectors. Matthew has spoken at the Hay Festival, Eton College, the Oxford Guild of Printers, Chipping Norton Literary Festival, the Barber Institute, Lincoln College Oxford, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. He has been a BBC Antiques Roadshow expert since 2014.Selected publications: o 'Collector's edition', New Statesman, 11 April 2014 o 'Camera ready artwork', Antiques Trade Gazette, 12 May 2018 o 'To Collect One's Thoughts', ibid., 21 May 2022 o 'Designing a Better Auction: a Nobel Goal', The Book Collector, Spring 2021 o 'The New Incunabula', ibid., Spring 2022 o 'Printing and a Mound of Money', ibid., Winter 2023 o 'Buried Treasures', World of Interiors online, 1 June

Signatories

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