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	<title>David Watkin &#187; Maggs of Berkeley Square</title>
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	<description>David Watkin: Oscar-winning Cinematographer</description>
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		<title>David Watkin&#8217;s Library</title>
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		<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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