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	<title>David Watkin &#187; Colin Page Brighton</title>
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	<description>David Watkin: Oscar-winning Cinematographer</description>
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		<title>Collecting Books</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colin Page Brighton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holleyman & Treacher Brighton]]></category>
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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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