Obsessions and confessions of a book life
By: Colin Franklin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press; Books of Kells; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Castle, DE; Camberwell, Victoria, Australia; London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781584563044; 9780646575711; 9780956301222
Subjects: History; Book collectors; Book industries and trade; Bibliographers; Biography; Antiquarian booksellers
Description: "An autobiographical narrative of the career of British author, bookseller, and book collector Colin Franklin, discussing his life and experiences in the book world. Includes essays on figures in the book trade who have influenced and fascinated Franklin. Illustrated in color and black and white"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A creed of books; title: In a golden age of publishing; title: Those were the days; title: What do you specialise in?; title: Expert; title: The Nijinsky peccadillo; title: From a diary, September 1985; title: The Daniel Press at Oxford; title: William Morris, 1834-1896; title: Binders lettering; title: Bodoni, a private printer; title: The Bowdlers and their family Shakespeare; title: Joseph Skelton, a neglected Oxford antiquary; title: William Fowler of Winterton; title: Ruskin, Leech and Surtees.