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	<description>David Watkin: Oscar-winning Cinematographer</description>
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		<title>Holleyman and Treacher, and how I met Mister Watkin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1989 when I first came to Brighton from antiquarian Norwich I little expected to find an equivalent to Thomas Crowe, or the Scientific Anglian. But to have the shops of Colin Page and Holleyman and Treacher within a minute’s walk of each other was exhilarating. Rather than join my Art School colleagues in the pub at lunchtime I headed for Duke Street. Appropriately, Holleyman and Treacher’s building was originally a Temperance Hotel and, I think, occupied five floors, three of which were opened to the public in 1989. David Plumtree was an enthusiast and knowledgeable about books in ways I had not encountered before, with a wicked dry wit that made it all a delight. His business partner was Michael Kadwell, whose speciality was the musical scores and text books on the floor above the general office.  Regular customers such as Canon Wiggins and David Watkin were allowed to sit and gossip here. I had encouraged David Plumtree to describe his celebrated clients and their little ways, Maggie Smith, Dudley Sutton, Dennis Healey and Tom Jackson of the Post Office Workers. At some stage he may have mentioned a steady customer, one David Watkin, not the architectural historian or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collecting Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Watkin was a dedicated collector of books. He bought carefully but knowledgeably from the main dealers in Britain and the US, in person or by catalogue. Even when he feared poverty in his later years (never with much conviction) I saw him contemplating catalogue items such as the Complete Plays of Vanbrugh for many thousands of pounds seen in a New York dealer’s catalogue. Although he showed great pride of ownership, it was understood that this resource was also a pension in his declining years. Many of the dealers were friends beyond the transaction (Ed Maggs of Maggs Brothers, David Plumtree of Holleyman, John Loska of Colin Page). Occasionally he would buy in the sale rooms. All purchases were recorded in a manuscript book, author and title, shop and price, later transferred to computer. I have added some pages from the liststo this site dating from as early as 1976. In the January of 1980 on a visit to Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford he bought 11 books for a total of £479.00, Forest Reid’s Garden by the Sea (inscribed) was £140.00, and Masefield’s Salt Water Ballads was £200.00. As his film career slowly diminished, familiar gems in the stacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Watkin&#8217;s Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a man who earned his living through images, David Watkin was astonishingly confident with the written word, reading and writing and declaiming. At various stages of our friendship I remember his completing Thomas Mallory, Proust and The Faerie Queen. He took particular delight in Shakespeare’s plays and mined deeply within the two volume edition of Doctor Johnson’s Dictionary (1755) , a first edition of which stood on the half landing besides other monstrously large tomes  such as The Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition 1911), Camden’s Britannia, Johnson’s Lives of the Highwaymen, Gerarde’s Herbal, The Holy Bible and the works of Archbishop Temple, and Virgil. The books are dispersed now. Their reader is dead. The spaces within the house have different uses. It is time to reflect on what this Library was, and what it meant to the rest of us. The Main Body of the Library stretched along the long wall of the Lounge and the wall by the door to the Sauna. Shallower shelves housed his triple- deckers and miscellaneous fiction, The lower, deeper shelves held the elephantine art books and posh bindings. His selection of art books was generally disappointing. You could find coffee table books and elderly Phaidon monographs with poor reproductions. Fine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maggs of Berkeley Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d gone to the Apocalypse Exhibition at the Royal Academy &#8211; DW guffawing his way around The Chapman Brother&#8217;s &#8216;Hell&#8216;. Afterwards he took us to visit his chums at Maggs&#8230; where a complete tour of the building ensued, courtesy of Mister Maggs, with Jozef taking the following snaps. Maggs Rare Books]]></description>
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		<title>Some comments on &#8216;Thesaurus&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some quotes, taken from literally, worlds apart:   Jim Ballentyne &#8220;This is an exercise in self-publishing, the handsomest I have ever come across. Many a commercial publisher should sit down with it. The design of the whole book, from dust jacket (lovely picture of the author at work!) through page layout to binding is exemplary, Jim Ballentyne&#8221;. David Lawrence &#8220;Fuck a stoat, what a wickedly funny book! I laughed, I cried, I read huge pieces aloud to Kathleen, and I smile every time I see it on my bookshelves, sitting between Fritz Lang’s Biography and some hyper-intellectual stuff by Wim Wenders. So I demand that you live forever so you can keep writing, and thank you again for your kindness to me and Katherine in Florence&#8221;. David Lawrence, Hollywood DOP. Barry Norman &#8220;I get an awful lot of film biogs and autobiogs, and most of them are overwritten and rather tedious. Yours is remarkably fresh and different, to say nothing of immensely readable. I need hardly add that your book stays firmly on my shelves, while the autobiogs of several others (who shall remain nameless) are on their way to the Oxfam Shop. Have a smashing 00. Very best wishes, [...]]]></description>
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