Welcome to Bertram Rota Ltd Booksellers

We specialise in Modern First Editions, books on Architecture and the Applied Arts, and Private Press Printing and Livres d'artiste. You can browse through our stock online, fill in an enquiry form, or request a free copy of our printed catalogue.

We are happy to carry out valuations for purposes of sale, insurance, or probate and are always keen to buy single books of importance, collections of first editions, scholarly works on history or literature, or entire libraries.

We are also interested in original manuscripts, corrected proofs and typescripts, historic and literary autographs, and portraits or drawings of literary interest.

Since its foundation, Bertram Rota Ltd has established a reputation for handling the sale of archives for major figures in the fields of literature and the arts. Since its foundation, Bertram Rota Ltd has established a reputation for handling the sale of archives for major figures in the fields of literature and the arts.

Our shop is located on the first floor of 31 Long Acre in Covent Garden, London. We are open from 9.30am to 5.30pm weekdays. We also welcome mail order and internet customers. Many of our regular clients are based overseas and we have an excellent history of shipping books abroad speedily and fully insured. Registered in London as above 373181.

Three new catalogues of Artists' Books for Summer 2008. View or download here
and here
and our Summer 2008 catalogue of American Artists' Books (pdf) here

View or download our January 2008 catalogue of Alphabet Books (pdf) here

View or download our Summer 2007 Private Press and Illustrated Poetry Catalogue (pdf) here

View or download our Spring 2007 Book Arts Catalogue (pdf) here

View or download our list of Recent Acquisitions, chiefly Military Costume Books
but including the Sussex Edition of Kipling's Works, the limited edition of Tess of the
D'Urbervilles and a beautiful copy of the third edition of Redouté's Les Roses, here

See our blog
www.bertramrota.blogspot.com