The return to older ways which is apparent in the setting and presentation of this issue of ALBION has been forced upon us at late notice by the Eastern Arts Association, who have just informed the editors that they will be unable to make a grant to the journal to help defray the cost of publishing Volume 7 in 1983.

Editorial.

The Bookplate Society, which was affiliated until 1982 with the Private Libraries Association, has just become independent and commenced publication of a new journal, The Bookplate Journal, which will the first in its field in English for more than fifty years.

Notebook for April.