About the Author

(George) Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948) was a literary critic, manager of trade journals and a noted bibliophile and collector. He helped to found the political and literary periodical New Age in 1907, winning support from Bernard Shaw. Publications include Bernard Shaw (1907); The Eighteen Nineties (1913); Anatomy of Bibliomania (1931); Bookman's Holiday (1945); On Art and Socialism (1947).