[Rarebooks] FS:Jackson, The Printing of Books

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JACKSON, HOLBROOK (1874-1948). 

_The Printing of Books_. 

London, etc.: Cassell & Company LTD., 1938. 

8vo. 9 x 5 3/4 inches. xiii, 285 pp. 79 illustrations, index; text
clean, unmarked. Two-toned cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket;
binding square and tight, rear panel of jacket has suffered some damage,
and the spine is lightly faded. Good dust-jacket, the book is in Fine
condition. 

$ 25 

FIRST EDITION. This volume contains a series of essays in aesthetics and
problems involved in the production of books from a reader's point of
view, in the vein of Jackson's earlier _Anatomy of Bibliomania_ and _The
Fear of Books_. 

George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) was a British journalist, writer,
and publisher, who was recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of
his time. Around 1900 Jackson was in the lace trade in Leeds, where he
met Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934). At this time Jackson was a Fabian
socialist, and he and Orage founded the Leeds Arts Club. Later the two
moved to London as journalists where they formed the Fabian Arts Group
and ran a series of magazines as editors and writers. Jackson created
the Flying Fame Press around 1912, when he began a long association with
the worlds of small press, typography, and book collecting. As a member
of the Fleuron Society, Jackson rubbed shoulders with Stanley Morison,
Francis Meynell, Bernard Newdigate, and Oliver Simon. Not only was
Jackson a socialist (scandalous!), but Orage's wife left Orage for
Jackson around 1908, but Mrs. Orage refused to divorce Orage, so there
seems to have been something of a free-love aspect to these
relationships, as well. 

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