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John Carter: The Taste & Technique of a Bookman.(Book Review)

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| March 22, 2005 | Levine-Clark, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

John Carter: The Taste & Technique of a Bookman. By Donald C. Dickinson. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. xxi, 416 pp. $49.95. ISBN 1-58456-137-8.

From the time that he and Graham Pollard wrote An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets in 1934 to his death in 1975, John Carter was a central figure in the Anglo-American antiquarian book world. As the author or editor of several important books, most notably ABC for Book Collectors, now in an eighth edition, Taste & Technique of Book Collecting, and Printing and the Mind of Man, as well as a vast number of articles and reviews, and through his positions with Scribner's and Sotheby's, Carter influenced the…

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