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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…