Books Do Furnish a Painting

The representation of books in art is explored across 150 thematically arranged notable paintings depicting them. Takes in over 600 years of painting, with a variety including Antonello da Messina's "Virgin Annunciate" and Winslow Homer's "The New Novel".

Jamie Camplin graduated from Cambridge in 1968 with a Double First in History. He was Editorial Director, Thames & Hudson, 1979-2005, and Managing Director, 2005-13. He is the author of The Rise of the Plutocrats: Wealth and Power in Edwardian England (1978) and 1914 The King Must Die (2015). According to bestselling biographer Michael Holroyd, in The Times, he writes with 'skill and a wry romantic wit. I can see he is playing brilliantly.'