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Some twenty years ago the late Sidney Ball, of St John's, Oxford, took the first of his celebrated reading parties to
Bridport, and among the band was an undergraduate named F. J. Harvey Darton.
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noted when introducing a second revised edition in 1958, it "slowly found its way into libraries, schools and training schools for librarians." On reprinting the first edition in 2011,
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Darton's work drew on his family's 200 years in children's publishing, and his own experience of more than 30 years. As an academic work it did not sell fast, but as
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F. J. Harvey Darton was the eldest child of Joseph
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