Daniel Crouch Rare Books is delighted to present The Andrew Edmunds Collection of Caricatures. Formed over half a century by the late Soho restaurateur, art dealer, and collector Andrew Edmunds (1943–2022). This astonishing assemblage comprises more than 10,000 prints dating from 1600 to 1900. It is the largest and finest collection of satirical prints in private hands.

Unrivalled in scope and quality, the Edmunds Collection outclasses even the British Museum’s holdings - the only collection of greater size – in condition and richness of impression and includes hundreds of prints absent from the Museum’s catalogue. 

Rosie and David Temperley believe that “communication, cooperation, and creativity” are the three key tenets for social cohesion, and life.

The Temperley Collection, their vast accumulation of books and ephemera, acquired over more than sixty years, is a blinding reflection of this bright ideal, illuminated via the ingenuity of a myriad of papery arts. The result is a cornucopia of marvels and delights that (literally) spring, bounce, twist, turn, fold, flap and flip – off, on and through the pages of thousands of books, cards, prints, and toys.

Over the course of the 500 years that the Temperley Collection spans, some of the most enlightened minds have used these methods to communicate the scientific and religious mysteries of our heavens and earth. Above all, the Temperley Collection practices what it preaches: it is a library that refuses to stay put on the shelves; it is an experience which demands immersion and participation.