Simon Beattie

Our one British contributor, Simon Beattie has been in the book trade since 1998. After almost a dozen years working in London for Bernard Quaritch and Simon Finch Rare Books, he set up on his own in 2010, specialising in European (cross-)cultural history. When he became a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association in 2011, the Association’s Newsletter described him as ‘a dealer to watch’: his catalogues have won seven design awards to date, on both sides of the Atlantic, and in 2012 he was included among the winners of the Smarta 100 Awards for ‘the most resourceful, original, exciting small businesses in the UK’.