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Obsessions and confessions of a book life
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"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 t...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Colin Franklin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; Camberwell, Victoria, Australia : Books of Kells ; London, United Kingdom : Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012
- Physical Details
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- viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781584563044, 1584563044, 9780646575711, 0646575716, 9780956301222, 0956301223
- OCLC
- ocn795020461
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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