FIVE FACTS ABOUT CLIVE

1 Before he found his way into the world of antique books, Clive had a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, but a gap-year job at an antiquarian bookshop, in 1969, led him down another path.

2 Clive became the Antiques Roadshow’s rst- ever books, prints and manuscripts specialist in 1985.

3 Because of the Roadshow, Clive has had to become an expert in comics – including everything from vintage Rupert to modern Batman.

4 Outside books, Clive collects brown furniture: ‘It’s lovely, terribly unfashionable, but beautiful’.

5 The prize of Clive’s manuscript collection is a letter by Charles I. Bearing the king’s signature, the letter pertains to a key moment before the outbreak of civil war (1642), during which Charles lost his head.