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Franklin, Colin BOOK COLLECTING AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS AND OTHER ESSAYS.
(Aldershot) Scolar (1996) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 138 pages.
First edition. Twelve chapters of interest to the book collector including ones on "Type Under the Water," John Baptist Jackson and his Chiaroscuro method, D.G. Rossetti, and "Hume, Sludge & I: A Study in Techniques of Dishonesty."
Price: $ 64.95 other currencies Order nr. 61988

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Franklin, Colin FOND OF PRINTING, GORDON CRAIG AS TYPOGRAPHER & ILLUSTRATOR.
With a Foreword by Edward Craig and an Essay by Gordon Craig on Illustrations in General. San Francisco The Book Club of California 1980 tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 89, (3) pages.
First edition, printed in an edition limited to 450 copies for the The Book Club of California.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 62401

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Franklin, Colin FOND OF PRINTING, GORDON CRAIG AS TYPOGRAPHER & ILLUSTRATOR With a Foreword by Edward Craig and an Essay by Gordon Craig on Illustrations in General.
New York The Typophiles 1980 tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 89, (3) pages.
First edition, one of 1475 copies printed of which this is one of the 500 for the Typophiles. Chapbook 54 issued by The Typophiles.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 78237

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Signed copy available upon request

Franklin, Colin OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. 2012 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 296 pages
Reminiscences of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining. It wanders freely through themes which have absorbed him - a lost world of publishing, adventures in bookselling, and the irreplaceable scholarly eccentrics who dominated that world a generation ago. During his numerous trips to Paris, Japan, South Africa, and many universities in the United States, Franklin kept diaries of his accounts which have helped him to put together this new publication. The chapters represent a type of memoir recalling his various book interests developed during his life of publishing and bookselling.

Including serious essays on diverse characters who have fascinated him, the book discusses the Bowdlers and their 'Family Shakespeare'; William Fowler of Winterton, who neglected his humble calling and privately produced books of the greatest magnificence on Roman Mosaic Floors (when these were being discovered under England's green and pleasant land); a little-known Oxford antiquary and print-maker Joseph Skelton; the once-so-popular Robert Surtees and John Leech (much admired by Ruskin), who illustrated his novels; on the neglected theme of Binders' Lettering; and on his lifelong hero William Morris. There is also a new assessment of the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni, whom Franklin considers to have been finest of them all. A satirical essay called 'Expert', in addition to the anecdotal and narrative style of text, make this an entirely enjoyable work, rich in illustrations and photographs.

Because of Franklin's exhaustive love for books, he has been able to handle some of the most outstanding examples of work he could ever desire. His passion for private presses, early color printings, early editions of Shakespeare, and beautiful Japanese scrolls, has led him to believe that most booksellers, collectors, and even librarians are guided by his or her taste rather than by calculation, just as he has been.

After wartime service in the British Navy, Colin Franklin graduated in English from St. John's College, Oxford and entered the publishing firm of Routledge and Kegan Paul. In middle life the decision was abruptly taken (with his wife's blessing) to quit publishing and turn bookseller. Franklin and his wife Charlotte had five sons and now live near Oxford where they recently celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary.

Available in Australia from Books of Kells; available in the UK from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 108511

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Franklin, Colin POETS OF THE DANIEL PRESS.
Cambridge Rampant Lions Press 1988 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 94, (2) pages.
Trade edition of the limited edition. A study of this press's work in supporting contemporary poets, including Bridges, Dixon, Mary Coleridge, Margaret Woods, Laurence Binyon, and Henry Patmore.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114439

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Franklin, Colin THE PRIVATE PRESSES.
(Chester Springs) Dufour (1969) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages.
First U.S. edition. Discussion of the Daniel Press, Kelmscott Press, Ashendene, Essex House, Vale, Eragny, Doves, etc., with bibliographies. Slightly bumped at head of spine with tear in jacket along hinge.
Price: $ 22.50 other currencies Order nr. 11679

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Franklin, Colin THE PRIVATE PRESSES.
London Studio Vista (1969) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages.
First edition. Discussion of the Daniel Press, Kelmscott Press, Ashendene, Essex House, Vale, Eragny, Doves, etc., with bibliographies.
Price: $ 27.50 other currencies Order nr. 20921

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Franklin, Colin THE PRIVATE PRESSES.
(Chester Springs) Dufour (1969) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages.
First U.S. edition. Discussion of the Daniel Press, Kelmscott Press, Ashendene, Essex House, Vale, Eragny, Doves, etc., with bibliographies. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 98393

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(Gogmagog Press) Chambers, David, Colin Franklin and Alan Tucker. MORRIS COX & THE GOGMAGOG PRESS.
Pinner, Middlesex Private Libraries Association 1991 small 4to. cloth. 184 pages.
A tribute to the work of Morris Cox and his Gogmagog Press. Cox started his press, in 1957, as a means to present his own poetry and illustrations, in the meanwhile, creating some beautiful bindings and some highly individual techniques in printing. The text presents Cox's life and work, some of his poetry and illustrations and a lengthy and well annotated bibliography of the press. Well-illustrated throughout, some in color.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 33963

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(Rampant Lions Press) Franklin, Colin PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MORRIS
Cambridge Rampant Lions Press 1986 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label 58, (2) pages.
Limited to 450 numbered copies printed on Hahnemuhle mould-made paper of which 400 are for sale. An essay on William Morris and the Kelmscott Press paralleling his "typographic decoration and literary elaboration of style he chose for his prose romances."
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 18655

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