Refimprove date November 2006 File End papers.jpg thumb right 220px Endpapers of the original run of books in the Everyman s Library , 1906, based on the art of William Morris s Kelmscott Press. The endpapers or end papers of a book are the leaves of paper before the title page and after the text. Booksellers sometimes refer to the front end paper as FEP. Before mass printing in the 20th century it was common for the endpapers of books to have paper marbling . Sometimes the endpapers are used for maps or other relevant information. They are the traditional place to put bookplate s, or an owner s inscription. As of 2010 there are many Quantify date November 2010 styles of endsheets or endpapers that are specifically designed for use with different bindings. For example, endsheets reinforced with cloth are used in sewn bindings. ref cite web url http www.lbsbind.com endsheets endsheets for side sewing.php title Endsheets For Side Sewing LBS Bookbinding, On Demand & Packaging Materials publisher Lbsbind.com date accessdate 2011 11 16 ref The cloth holds the stitches and prevents the paper from perforating and tearing. Other styles are designed for use with perfect binders. ref cite web url http www.lbsbind.com endsheets endsheets for perfect binding.php title Endsheets For Perfect Binding easily create a hardcover book publisher Lbsbind.com date accessdate 2011 11 16 ref Combined and Universal Endsheets are loaded into the cover feeder of an automatic perfect binder and attached instead of the soft cover automatically producing a book block reinforced from head to tail. The Folded Tabbed End sheet is collated with the text pages, milled and bound along with the book block. There are also many styles of endpapers that are engineered to meet text book standards and library binding standards as well as endsheets for conservation and book repair. See also Bookbinding Book design References Reflist Book structure Category Book publishing Book art stub Publish stub de Vorsat ... more details
orphan date March 2010 This is a list of abbreviations commonly used by bookselling booksellers . ABAA Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America AEG All Edges Gilt ALS Autographed Letter Signed ARC Advance Readers Copy BCE Book Club Edition BDS Boards BOMC Book of the Month Club BPT Bumped C. Small c. before date, meaning circa around about referring to date CR or CPR or Copyright CWO Check or cash with order DEC Decorated DJ Dust jacket DS Document signed DW Dustwrapper same as dust jacket, or book jacket ED Edition or Editor EP Endpaper EX LIB Ex Library copy EX LIBRIS From the library of, referring to previous owner often found on bookplates F Fine FFEP Front free endpaper FL Flyleaf FRONTIS Book frontispiece Frontispiece G Good HC Hardcover IL or ILLUS Illustrated IOBA Independent Online Booksellers Association LITHO Lithograph LTD ED Limited Edition ND or n d No Date NP or n pl No Place NYR or NYP Not Yet Released or Not Yet Published OSI Out of Stock Indefinitely OP or OOP Out of Print POI Prior Owner Inscription POS Publisher Out of Stock PP Pages p and then the number for page pp for pages to PPB or PB Paperback PPD Postpaid PR Printing PSEUD Pseudonym PUB Published publisher RFEP Rear free endpaper RET Returnable SLC or SC Slipcase SGD Signed SP Spelling TEG Top Edge Gilt TLS Typed letter signed TP Title Page V. or VOL or VOLS Volume Volumes VG Very Good WAF With All Faults W O Without See also Book size List of used book conditions References Refbegin 2 Prytherch, Ray 2000 . Harrod s Librarians Glossary and reference book . 9th ed. Gower Publishing Company Limited. ISBN 0 566 08018 4 Refend Category Book collecting Category Lists of abbreviations Booksellers ... more details
FEP may refer to Free England Party , A political party seeking independence for England from the United Kingdom Albertus Airport , Freeport, Illinois IATA code Federa o Escotista de Portugal Features, events, and processes , terms often referred to in the field of radioactive waste management to define relevant scenarios for safety assessment studies Federation of European Professional Photographers , a body of professional photographers associations in Europe based in Brussels Federation of European Publishers , the representative body for publishers in Europe, based in Brussels Final Evaluation Problem , a U.S. Navy graded 48 hour evolution to evaluate how well its units learned during its Tailored Ship s Training Availability TSTA certification exercises Fluorinated ethylene propylene , a member of the fluorocarbon family of plastics with good electrical insulating properties and chemical and heat resistance Firewall computing Firewall Enhancement Protocol RFC 3093 Fort Edmonton Park , a living history museum in Edmonton, Canada Free energy perturbation , a method in computational chemistry and statistical mechanics Free erythrocyte porphyrin s a screening method for lead poisoning in the blood Front Endpapers endpaper of a book Front end processor , a communications device which interfaces a number of peripheral devices to the host computer. disambig de FEP fr FEP it FEP pt FEP fi FEP ... more details
orphan date March 2010 Miscellanea Historica Hibernica , also known as MS G1, is a manuscript miscellany , a Miniature illuminated manuscript miniature vellum commonplace book. Compiled by Pilip Ballach Duibhgeann in during the years 1579 1584, it is described on the front endpaper as Miscellanea Historica Hibernica in a later hand. Duibhgeann in was a resident of Cloonybrien, County Roscommon . The Miscellanea contains an Irish rendering of an extract from a Latin tract found in Roger Bacon s 13th century version of Secretum Secretorum on physiognomy . Paul Walsh suggested that Duibhgeann in was a son of Fer Caogad mac Ferghal Duibhgeann in, who died at Cloonybried in 1581. Sources Irish Medieval Learning , by Fr. Paul Walsh , 1918, pp. 18 19. Rudimenta Physionomiae , by Gear id mac Niocaill , in Celtica vi 1963 , pp. 271 77. A world of wonders marvels and prodigies in the diocese of Elphin , 1588 , pp. 134 54, in Stories from Gaelic Ireland Microhistories from the sixteenth century Irish annals , by Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie , Four Courts Press, Dublin , 2003, ISBN 1 85182 7471. Category Medieval literature Category Medieval Ireland Category 16th century books Category Irish texts Category Irish language literature Category 1580s books Category History of Ireland Category 16th century historical documents Category Irish manuscripts ... more details
Ingres paper is a type of drawing paper . It is a laid paper laid finish paper of light to medium paper density weight , and it is not as strong or as durable as Bristol paper . Laid finish refers to the imprint of regular screen pattern of a papermaker s mould. Ingres is not necessarily a handmade paper, but is produced to replicate the properties of laid paper. Ingres is often used for charcoal and pastel drawing. ref cite book last Saitzyk first Steven title Art Hardware The Definitive Guide to Artists Materials year 1987 publisher Watson Guptill location New York isbn 0823002667 ref It is also used as an endpaper in books. The development of ingres paper for drawing is ascribed to the French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Dominique Ingres 1780 1867 , although modern ingres papers can differ from those actually used by Ingres. Important is that the pattern is a laid mesh. The laid effect creates a toothy grain of close lines on one side and a mottled surface on the reverse. The toothiness allows the paper to take charcoal easily and evenly. Ingres paper is favored in book arts for its antique appearance and pH neutrality. Prominent manufactures include Canson , Hahnem hle sometimes called German Ingres , and Fabriano Miliani Fabriano . Ingres paper has a high rag content around 65 and is gelatin sizing sized . It is available in a variety of colors. References references Category Paper Material stub ... more details
The Juiceman Juicer was one of the first products and brands to be sold and built through the infomercial format Citation needed date March 2009 at the peak of the juicing craze in the summer of 1992. ref cite news first Koncius last Jura coauthors authorlink title Getting Juiced Despite the Doubts of Skeptics, Drinking Vegetables Is All the Rage date 1992 07 30 publisher url http www.highbeam.com doc 1P2 1017925.html work The Washington Post pages accessdate 2009 03 16 language ref Years later, the Juiceman continues to be discussed in talks about infomercials and their successes. ref name endp cite news first Henry last Alford coauthors authorlink title Endpaper The Pulp Crisi date 1993 11 14 publisher url http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9F0CEED8103EF937A25752C1A965958260 work The New York Times pages accessdate 2009 03 16 language ref ref name jhn cite news first last coauthors authorlink title The Infomercial Quiz date 2002 03 29 publisher url http media.www.jhunewsletter.com media storage paper932 news 2002 03 29 Quiz The Infomercial.Quiz 2248260.shtml work The Johns Hopkins Newsletter pages accessdate 2009 03 16 language ref The Juiceman show featured energetic pitch man Jay Kordich . Citation needed date March 2009 . Rick Cesari , the co founder of Cesari Response Television is considered a pioneer of the informercial industry. His previous company, Trillium Health Products, Inc. , attained more than 100m in sales attributed in part to the direct marketing of the Juiceman Juicer. ref cite news url http seattle.bizjournals.com seattle stories 1997 11 03 focus15.html first Mike last Roarke title CRTV wrote the book on infomercials date 1997 11 02 ref ref cite news url http pacific.bizjournals.com pacific stories 1997 12 22 story1.html first Donne last Dawson title Shintani signs national infomercial deal date 1997 12 21 ref References reflist product stub Category Juice Category Infomercials ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Spell of the Witch World title orig translator image Image Spell of the Witch World.jpg 200px image caption Cover of the first edition author Andre Norton cover artist Jack Gaughan country United States language English language English series Witch World genre Fantasy fiction Fantasy short stories publisher DAW Books release date 1972 english release date media type Print Paperback pages 159 pp. isbn 9780886772420 preceded by followed by Lore of the Witch World Spell of the Witch World is a collection of short fiction by science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton , forming part of her Witch World series. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in April 1972, and has been reprinted numerous times since. It has the distinction of being the first book released by that publisher. Early printings had cover art and a frontispiece by artist Jack Gaughan later printings replaced the cover art but not the frontispiece with new art by Michael Whelan . The first hardcover edition was a photographic reprint of the DAW edition published by Gregg Press in 1977. It featured a new frontispiece by Alice D. Phalen and endpaper maps of the Witch World by Barbi Johnson . The book collects three Witch World pieces by Norton, two novellas and one short story. Contents Dragon Scale Silver Dream Smith Amber out of Quayth External links isfdb title id 2958 title Spell of the Witch World Category 1972 short story collections Category Fantasy short story collections Category Works by Andre Norton story collection stub ... more details
Patricia Marx is an United States American humorist and writer. She currently works as a staff writer for The New Yorker , and teaches at Princeton University . ref From the endpaper of Starting from Happy she teaches Screenwriting. ref Born in Abington, Pennsylvania , she earned her Bachelor of Arts B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , The New Yorker , ref cite web title Contributors Patricia Marx url http www.newyorker.com magazine bios patricia marx search?contributorName patricia 20marx publisher The New Yorker accessdate 22 May 2009 ref Vogue magazine Vogue , and The Atlantic Monthly . Marx is a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats , and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon . ref name Slate HimHerHim cite news url http www.slate.com id 2158215?nav tap3 work Slate magazine Slate title Women in Love last Kipnis first Laura date 2007 01 24 accessdate 2007 01 26 ref ref name Crimson Lampoon cite news url http www.thecrimson.com article.aspx?ref 125065 title Lampoon Admits First Two Women last Kinsley first Susan F work The Harvard Crimson date 1971 12 10 accessdate 2007 01 25 ref ref The Starting from Happy endpaper states that she was the first woman to be elected to the Harvard Lampoon. ref She is the author of the 2007 novel, Him Her Him Again The End of Him , as well as several humor books and children s books. ref name Goddard cite web url http www.goddard.edu academic VisitingWriterList.html Patricia title MFAW VT, Visiting Writers Profiles date 2006 09 19 accessdate 2007 02 01 publisher Goddard College ref Books Starting from Happy illustrated by the author , humorous novel Simon & Schuster, 2011 Dot in Larryland The Big Little Book of an Odd Sized Friendship , illustrated by Roz Chast , children s book humor New York Bloombury U.S.A. Children s Books, 2009 Him Her Him Again the End of Him , novel New York Scribner, 2007 1,003 Great Things about Being Jewish , with Lisa Birnbach and Ann ... more details
Hagop Sandaldjian 1931 ref name MJT 1990 ref name LAMag Joshua Tompkins, http books.google.com books?id YF0EAAAAMBAJ&pg PA24&dq Sandaldjian&ei ALD7SsjZL4jokATG 4XdDg v onepage&q Sandaldjian&f false Honey I Shrunk the Art , Los Angeles Magazine , May 1997, p.24. ref was an Egyptian born Armenian American musician and microminiature sculpture sculptor , best known for his tiny art pieces displayed at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California . ref name MJT cite web author year title Contributions from the Museum of Jurassic Technology Collections and Exhibitions The Eye of the Needle The Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian url http www.mjt.org exhibits hagop hagop1.html accessdate 2008 04 04 ref Sandaldjian s creations included a carving of Mount Ararat on a grain of rice a crucifix in which a minute golden figure of Jesus hangs upon a cross made from a bisected strand of Sandaldjian s own hair and recreations of Disney figures Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Mickey Mouse , for example or historical figures such as Napoleon or Pope John Paul II presented in the eye or on the tip of a needle. ref name MJT ref Alan Burdick, http www.nytimes.com 1993 09 19 magazine endpaper workbook pope by a hair.html Endpaper Workbook Pope By a Hair , New York Times , September 19, 1993. ref ref John Mack, The Art of Small Things Harvard University Press, 2008 , ISBN 0674026934, ISBN 9780674026933, pp. 19 http books.google.com books?id xtm4UmzmE44C&pg PA19&dq Hagop Sandaldjian&as brr 3&ei RnFwSpL5KIvKlQSTh83tDg excerpt available at Google Books . ref Sandaldjian was born in Alexandria , Egypt , and went to the Soviet Union to study music in Yerevan , Armenia and in Moscow . He became a violinist, and taught music at a conservatory in Yerevan. ref name MJT In the early 1970s he learned about the art of microminiature from one of his students, Edward Kazarian. ref Regarding Edward Kazarian, see Robert Paul Jordan, The Proud ... more details
Charles John Burnett is a Scottish antiquarian and former officer of arms . Burnett was born in 1940 ref name debretts cite web url http www.debretts.com people biographies browse b 13673 Charles 20John BURNETT.aspx title Charles J Burnett, Esq publisher Debretts work People of Today accessdate 27 September 2010 ref and educated at Gray s School of Art in Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh . ref name thistle cite book title The Thistle Chapel last1 Blair first1 Robin last2 Boreham first2 Louise last3 Burnett first3 Charles last4 Cumming first4 Elizabeth last5 Roads first5 Elizabeth year 2009 publisher The Order of the Thistle location Edinburgh isbn 978 0 9562407 0 5 page Endpaper nopp yes url http www.lyon court.com lordlyon 576.html accessdate 27 September 2010 oclc 643612646 ref He has worked for a number of museums including Letchworth Museum , the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland , the National War Museum Scottish United Services Museum at Edinburgh Castle , and Duff House , Banff, Aberdeenshire Banff ref name debretts Burnett was appointed Dingwall Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary in 1983 ref London Gazette issue 21452 date 30 December 1983 startpage 1959 city e accessdate 27 September 2010 ref and promoted to Ross Herald of Arms in Ordinary in 1988. ref London Gazette issue 22483 date 10 January 1989 startpage 25 city e accessdate 27 September 2010 ref He retired as an officer of arms in 2010. ref http www.lyon court.com lordlyon 696.html ref His 1992 M.Litt thesis at the University of Edinburgh was entitled The Officers of Arms and heraldic art under King James Sixth & First 1567 1625 . ref cite book title The Officers of Arms and heraldic art under King James Sixth & First 1567 1625 last Burnett first Charles year 1992 location Edinburgh oclc 606134285 ref He is also the president of the Heraldry Society of Scotland . ref cite web url http www.heraldry scotland.co.uk officehold.html title Office Holders for The Heraldry Society of Scotland ac ... more details
Infobox Book name The Casebook of Solar Pons title orig translator image Image Casebook of solar pons.jpg 200px image caption Dust jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Casebook of Solar Pons author August Derleth illustrator endpaper map by Luther Norris cover artist Frank Utpatel country United States language English language English series Solar Pons genre Detective fiction Detective short stories publisher Mycroft & Moran release date 1965 english release date media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages xviii, 281 pp isbn NA preceded by The Reminiscences of Solar Pons followed by Mr. Fairlie s Final Journey The Casebook of Solar Pons is a collection of detective fiction short stories by author August Derleth . It was released in 1965 in literature 1965 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 3,020 copies. It was the sixth collection of Derleth s Solar Pons stories which are pastiches of the Sherlock Holmes tales of Arthur Conan Doyle . Contents The Casebook of Solar Pons contains the following tales Foreword , by Vincent Starrett Cuthbert Lyndon Parker , by Michael Harrison writer Michael Harrison The Adventure of the Sussex Archers The Adventure of the Haunted Library The Adventure of the Fatal Glance The Adventure of the Intarsia Box The Adventure of the Spurious Tamerlaine The Adventure of the China Cottage The Adventure of the Ascot Scandal The Adventure of the Crouching Dog The Adventure of the Missing Huntsman The Adventure of the Amateur Philologist The Adventure of the Whispering Knights The Adventure of the Innkeeper s Clerk Afterword Reprints Los Angeles Pinnacle, 1975. References cite book last Jaffery first Sheldon authorlink Sheldon Jaffery title The Arkham House Companion location Mercer Island, WA publisher Starmont House, Inc. pages 77 date 1989 id ISBN 1 55742 005 X cite book last Chalker first Jack L. authorlink Jack L. Chalker coauthors Mark Owings title The Science Fantasy Publishers A Bibliographic History, 1923 1998 location Westminster, ... more details
Clifford Webb 14 February 1895 29 July 1972 was an English artist, illustrator and author RBA 1936, RE 1948. He was apprenticed as a lithographer, served in the British Army Wiltshire Regiment in World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art . Fought in Mons, Gallipoli and Mesopotamina. Wounded four times and mentioned in Despatches. 1917 1919 served as Captain in the Indian Army. 1919 22 Studied a the Westminster School of Art under Walter Bayes and Bernard Meninsky. 1923 26 Part time lecturer at Birmingham Central School of Art. He specialised in animal drawings, and produced illustrations for the first two books of the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome initially for the second edition of Swallows and Amazons as Ransome did not like the illustrations produced for the first edition by Steven Spurrier , which were not used apart from the endpaper map and the dust jacket . Webb also illustrated the second book, Swallowdale . Ransome then illustrated Peter Duck , the third and all subsequent books himself, and in 1938 Ransome produced replacement illustrations for later editions of Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale . Webb wrote and illustrated children s books, The Story of Noah The Thirteenth Pig 1965 Butterwick Farm 1933 Animals from Everywhere 1938 More Animals from Everywhere 1959 The Story of Noah 1931 A Jungle Picnic 1934 The North Pole Before Lunch 1936 The Friendly Place 1962 Magic Island Strange Creatures 1963 All Kinds of Animals 1970 His wife Ella Monkton authored a number of books which he illustrated The Key and the Chest Tim Minds the Shop Tim Minds the Baby Tim thinks of Something The Top of the Mountain The Gates Family The Go To Bed book 1935 He also illustrated other books Swallow and Amazons Arthur Ransome, 1930 Swallowdale Arthur Ransome, 1931 An Introduction to India E Lucia Turnbull 1933 A Key to the Countryside Marcus Woodward 1934 A Surgeons China Albert Gervais 1934 Words Beasts and Fishes Marmaduke Dixey 1936 Th ... more details
of the cover page, extending to the facing page is the front endpaper sometimes referred as FEP. The free half of the end paper is called a flyleaf. Traditionally, in hand bound books, the endpaper ... logo. On the inside of the back cover page, extending from the facing page before it, is the endpaper. Its design matches the front endpaper and, in accordance with it, contains either plain paper or pattern ... more details
italictitle Infobox book name Field Guide to the Birds of Australia title orig The Birds of Australia a Book of Identification translator image File Simpson & Day Ist edition cover2.JPG 200px centre image caption Cover of 1st 1984 edition author Ken Simpson illustrator Nicolas Day cover artist Nicolas Day country Australia language English language English series subject Australian birds genre Field guide publisher Lloyd O Neil Melbourne pub date 1984 english pub date media type Print hardback pages 352 isbn 0 85550 492 7 oclc dewey 598.2994 congress preceded by followed by The Simpson & Day Field Guide to the Birds of Australia is one of the main national bird field guide s used by Australia n birdwatching birders , which over the years has evolved through several revised and updated editions. Total sales exceed 500,000 copies. ref name pb Penguin Books. ref History The book was first published in 1984 by Lloyd O Neil as The Birds of Australia , in hardcover format with a dust jacket , 285 mm high by 215 mm wide and weighing 1.7 kg. It contained illustrations by Nicolas Day of 758 species on 128 colour plates. It was divided into three main sections, a key to bird family biology families , the field information section with the plates opposite the relevant species descriptions and distribution maps, and the handbook with more detailed information on avian biology. The endpaper s featured life size profile drawings of the beak bills of albatross es and petrel s to aid the identification of beach washed seabird s. ref name s&d Simpson & Day 1984 . ref Although the dust jacket and title page featured Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day as coauthors, the Acknowledgment creative arts acknowledgements principally credited Ken Simpson as Editor, Nicolas Day as Illustrator and Peter Trusler as Art Director, with several others credited as writers, contributing illustrators and in other capacities. ref name s&d Subsequent editions were published by Penguin Books Peng ... more details
Image Marbled endpaper, between 1720 and 1770, from Quintilian ed. Burmann, Leiden 1720.jpg Marbled endpaper from a book bound in the Netherlands or Germany between 1720 and 1770 Image PaperMarbling005France1735.jpg Marbled endpaper from a book bound in France around 1735 Image PaperMarbling001England1830.jpg ... Marbled endpaper from a book bound in France around 1880 Image PaperMarbling003France1880Detail.jpg Marbled endpaper from a book bound in France around 1880 detail Image Combed Marbled ... more details
as the front endpaper, in accordance with the text page 30 but contradicting the actual order. The later printings of the first edition list the Wilderland map as the front endpaper, in accordance with the actual .... Another difference from earlier printings can be found in the endpaper maps. They are printed ... several identical examples of the library edition have been reported, and because the endpaper ... s map is the front endpaper. Thr r back The List of Illustrations correctly states Thr r s map is the rear endpaper. map stock smooth The paper the maps are printed on is smoothly calendered. rough ... more details
Rebels and Traitors by British historical novelist Lindsey Davis best known for her Marcus Didius Falco series was published by Random House in September 2009 ISBN 9781846056321 . In contrast to the Ancient Rome ancient Roman setting of the Falco books and Course of Honour , this book is set in the English Civil War period of the 17th century. ref name news09 Cite web url http www.randomhouse.co.uk lindsey davis issue9 Lindsey 20Newsletter.pdf title The Lindsey Davis Newsletter, no. 9 date January 2009 work Random House Publishing accessdate 2009 03 31 ref At 742 pages it is substantially longer than her previous novels. The dedication is For Richard dearest and closest of friends your favourite book in memory , and the author s website tells that I am still getting used to life without my dear Richard. For those of you who haven t seen this before, he died in October 2008 . ref Cite web url http www.lindseydavis.co.uk lindseyspage.htm title Lindsey s page work The Official Lindsey Davis Website accessdate 2009 09 01 ref The author says in her publisher s newsletter The greatest recommendation I can give is that Richard, its first reader, thought it wonderful. He devoured chunks, demanding Bring more story even when he was in hospital. One of the last things I was ever able to tell him was that Rebels and Traitors was to be published by Random House, so I would be working with dear friends for his favourite book. ref name news09 The prologue takes place on 30 January 1649 at the execution of Charles I of England King Charles I at the Palace of Whitehall , London . The main body of the book then begins in 1634, and the endpaper blurb describes the book as being set in Birmingham , where the author was born, Oxford , where she studied, and London, where she now lives. Davis has said that her interest in this period goes back to when a print of the Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals hung in her primary school classroom, and was further developed when she read Rosemary Sut ... more details
File Brian.Higgins.portrait.by.Patrick.Swift.jpg thumb Brian Higgins , by Patrick Swift , c.1960 Brian Higgins 1930 65 Poet , mathematician and professional rugby player. blockquote Born at Batley in 1930, bored at Bradford in 1940, in 1950 he had an affair with the gamma function. He was educated in 1960 at the York Minster , Soho. blockquote Thus states the biographical note on the endpaper of Brian Higgins s first book of poems, The Only Need. Brian Higgins died in 1965, before his third book of poems The Northern Fiddler appeared. In an introduction to this book the poet George Barker poet George Barker wrote that Higgins had perceived that the secret at the heart of affairs constituted the most ingenious practical joke, which only a man who was at one and the same time a mathematician and a poet of sentiment could start functioning for the amusement and edification of all concerned. Higgins called himself a realist who wished to be romantic . Biography Quote box width 370px align right quoted true bgcolor FFFFF0 salign right quote Welfare X Y poem I am a digit soon to be cancelled out. What does it matter, an integer, more or less? For allowance is made in the rules that the world is a mess, Plus or minus a few perhaps, but it s right just about. A knife in my guts is the line of a pen through my mark And all my biography told in the numbers to ten The cock of my eye to the sun and the laugh of my soul to the dark, For I am one of the faceless signs, one of the Welfare Men. The decimals stutter and this is the lie they repeat. The years that he lived are accountable for in the main Add him up on the left and the right and it balances neat A few blank months but we soon got him working again . Yes, ordinate and abscissa, they chose for the graph The amount of Time spent related to What is Produced And a line through incorellate points is my strange epitaph With the usual allowance for error X equals Y is educed. poem source From The Only Need , 1960 ref http ije ... more details
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