Thank you and goodbye, Roger Dobson

It happened nearly thirty years ago, during my first few months in Oxford, where I held a post as lector and lecturer at the University. It must be said that, while there, I was not exactly required to work my fingers to the bone and spent a lot of my free time rummaging around in Oxford’s many second-hand bookshops, most of which have since closed down. I was on the hunt for various little-known authors whose books did not exist in any modern editions, authors such as Aickman, Lord Berners,...