"Drawing on research into the book-production records of twelve publishers - including George Bell & Son, Richard Bentley, William Blackwood, Chatto & Windus, Oliver & Boyd, Macmillan, and the book printers William Clowes and T & A Constable - taken at ten-year intervals from 18…
A floating world --The road I'd later take --A giraffe in Edinburgh zoo --The pope of long acre --A paragon of seedy exactitude --Hawks and magpies --The loneliness of the collector --The testament of Charlotte B. --The disembowelling of phantoms --Black mischief and subterfuge …
"A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves--and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favourite neighbourhood bookshop. From his childhood in rur…
