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Fanfrolico days

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December 2009–January 2010, no. 317

The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books by John Arnold

Private Libraries Association, $95 hb, 328 pp

Fanfrolico days

by
December 2009–January 2010, no. 317

In what now seems to be the vanished country of the early years of my career, begun in the State Library of Victoria in the 1970s, I vividly remember John Arnold enthusing about his interest in the polymath Jack Lindsay (1900–90), son of Norman (another polymath) and one of the founders of the short-lived but gorgeously named Fanfrolico Press, whose legacy of fine books excited the keen interest of collectors. I was impressed that my precocious younger colleague had devoured Jack Lindsay’s three volumes of autobiography and had entered into an admiring correspondence with a man who in his Australian youth had found himself possessed by the written word.

The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books

The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books

by John Arnold

Private Libraries Association, $95 hb, 328 pp

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