Antiquarian Booksellers Association Educational Trust

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF BIBLIOGRAPHY IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS, HISTORICAL, DESCRIPTIVE AND ENUMERATIVE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK, THE HISTORY OF PRINTING, THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES, PUBLISHING, BOOK-SELLING, BOOK-TRADE HISTORY, BOOK-COLLECTING, BOOK-AUCTIONS, THE RARE BOOK TRADE, AUTHORSHIP, READING AND READERSHIP, THE EDITING AND TRANSMISSION OF TEXTS, BOOKBINDING, ILLUSTRATION AND ILLUSTRATIVE TECHNIQUES, PAPER AND PAPER-MAKING, TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY, PALAEOGRAPHY, MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, PRINT-MAKING, MAP-MAKING AND THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY, PRINTED EPHEMERA, LIBRARY HISTORY, PROVENANCE, BOOK-PLATES AND EVIDENCE OF OWNERSHIP, AND BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES OF THOSE ENGAGED IN ALL ASPECTS OF THESE SUBJECTS, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "RARE BOOK STUDIES"