Obsessions and confessions of a book life /

"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 whit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Franklin, Colin
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Castle, DE : Camberwell, Victoria, Australia : London, United Kingdom : Oak Knoll Press ; Books of Kells ; Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Franklin, Colin. Bibliographers > England > Biography. Antiquarian booksellers > England > Biography. Book collectors > England > Biography. Book industries and trade > Great Britain > History.

Table of Contents:

A creed of books
In a golden age of publishing
Those were the days
What do you specialise in?
Expert
The Nijinsky peccadillo
From a diary, September 1985
The Daniel Press at Oxford
William Morris, 1834-1896
Binders lettering
Bodoni, a private printer
The Bowdlers and their family Shakespeare
Joseph Skelton, a neglected Oxford antiquary
William Fowler of Winterton
Ruskin, Leech and Surtees.