Colin Franklin (bibliographer)

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Colin Ellis Franklin,

Early life

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Franklin was born in Notting Hill, London, into an affluent and influential British Jewish family. He was the son of Muriel Frances Waley (1894–1976) and

Career

As a pupil at

He was Honorary President of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, Patron to the Oundle School Society of Bibliophiles, President of the Private Libraries Association and the Double Crown Club.

On 19 April 2019, he was appointed to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur by the President of France in recognition of his service on HMS Kimberley in August 1944, when he was a junior officer taking part in Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France.

Select bibliography

• Franklin, Colin. Out of Order [poems 1956–2012]. Culham: Privately printed, 2015.
• Franklin, Colin. Letters to a Granddaughter on Books and Book Collecting. Moreton-in-Marsh: Strawberry Press for the author, 2012 [i.e. 2013]. Illustrated by Phillida Gili.
• Franklin, Colin. Obsessions and Confessions of a Book Life. New Castle: Oak Knoll; Victoria: Book of Kells; London: Quaritch, 2012.
• Franklin, Colin. Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1999; London: British Library, 2005.
• Franklin, Colin. Book Collecting as One of the Fine Arts. Aldershot: Scolar, 1995.
• Franklin, Colin. Lord Chesterfield: His Character and Characters. Aldershot: Scolar, 1993.
• Franklin, Colin. The Gehenna Press: The Work of Fifty Years, 1942–1992: The Catalogue of an Exhibition Curated by Lisa Unger Baskin. With a bibliography by Hosea Baskin and notes by Leonard Baskin. [Dallas]: Bridwell Library and Gehenna Press, 1992.
• Franklin, Colin. Gogmagog: Maurice Cox and the Gogmagog Press. With David Chambers and Alan Tucker. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991.
• Franklin, Colin. The Private Presses. Second edition, Aldershot: Scolar, 1991. (Originally published London: Studio Vista, 1969).
• Franklin, Colin. Shakespeare Domesticated: The Eighteenth-century Editions. Aldershot: Scolar, 1991.
• Franklin, Colin. Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Mercy of her Publishers. [Waco]: Armstrong Browning Library, 1989.
• Franklin, Colin. Poets of the Daniel Press. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1988.
• Franklin, Colin. The Ashendene Press. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1986.
• Franklin, Colin. Printing and the Mind of Morris. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1986.
• Franklin, Colin (editor). Gordon Craig's Paris Diary, 1872–1966. North Hills: Bird and Bull Press, 1982.
• Franklin, Colin. Fond of Printing: Gordon Craig as Typographer and Illustrator. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1980.
• Franklin, Colin. Themes in Aquatint. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978.
• Franklin, Colin.
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  . Cambridge: University Printing House, 1973.

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