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Autumn 1961 – An Old Boot at Cambridge
By J. C. T. Oates
‘They say that the author of a certain learned work, having seen the nomarchs of his typescript safely through galley and page, was not a little put out when they all emerged on publication as monarchs: and it is, of course primarily in the hope of causing some similar confusion in the pages of The Book Collector, and only secondarily for the benefit of boot-lovers at large, that I draw attention to an old boot in the University Library at Cambridge.’
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