The Antiques Buyer

With 25 years as a professional dealer, David Dickinson has brought an invigorating enthusiasm and authority to TV antiques shows which has blown away the stuffiness and elitism usually associated with collecting.

This work is a truly practical guide to buying all types of antiques.

Imbued with David's charismatic enthusiasm and practical advice.

Chapters include: Starting on the Antiques Trail, The Joy of Antiques, Getting Your Eye In, Ground Rules for the First Time Buyer, Where to Buy and How to Buy (Shops, Auctions, House Sales, Fairs, Abroad), The Knowledge, The Restoration Game, Reselling.

Illustrated throughout from his own archive of photographs, David Dickinson is the first author since Arthur Negus to captivate the great mass of antique enthusiasts.