Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 8th September 2026

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: Ealing Green Church, The Green, W5 5QT

Description: Ross King, an award-winning author of books on Italian and French art and history, tells the story of a remarkable bookseller: Vespasiano da Bisticci, known as ‘the king of the world’s booksellers’. Besides repositories of wisdom by the likes of Plato, Aristotle and Cicero, his books were works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. His clients included popes, kings and princes from all across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries.

How to book: No need to book, though bookings through Eventbrite are eligible for a post-event recording of the talk

Price: HA members free; visitors £5

Tel: 07922046578

Email: philipgwoods@outlook.com

Website: https://ealinghistory.org.uk/

Organiser: Ealing Branch HA

Lecturer: Ross King

Region: London

Branch: Ealing