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Book collecting as one of the fien arts and other essays.

From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada  |  Date: 9/22/1997

Colin Franklin is well known as an antiquarian bookseller and as an author and leading authority on a variety of subjects, particularly in the area of the private press movement. Most of the twelve essays in this collection were written initially as addresses for a library audience or for a society associated with book collecting or printing. In some instances such as `Lord Chesterfield and His "Character"' and `Rossetti: A Ghost Story,' the essays do not link directly to book ...

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