After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

Essayist, literary historian and editor                          

Selected Works:

Edward Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam; an Essay and Bibliography - 1899
The Eternal Now - 1900
Everychild: a Book of Verses - 1903
Bernard Shaw - 1907
Great English Novelists - 1908 essays
William Morris: Craftsman-Socialist - 1908
Romance and Reality: Essays and Studies - 1911
Platitudes in the Making - 1911
Great Soldiers - 1911 as George Henry Hart
All Manner of Folk, Interpretations and Studies - 1912 essays
Town: An Essay - 1913
The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century - 1914
Southward Ho! and other essays - 1914 compilation
Contingent Ditties. and Other Soldier Songs of the Great War by Frank S. Brown - 1915 editor
Occasions - 1922 essays
Brief Survey Of Printing History & Practice - Kynoch Press 1923 with Stanley Morison
Private Presses in England - 1923
William Morris - 1926
The Bibliophile's Almanack for 1927 - The Fleuron 1927 with Harold Child, Osbert Sitwell, W.J. Turner and Frank Sidgwick
Essays of To-day and Yesterday - 1929 with Philip Guedalla, Allan Monkhouse, Ivor Brown
Anatomy of Bibliomania - 1930
Fear of Books - 1932
William Morris and the arts and crafts.- 1934
Maxims of Books and Reading - 1934
Three Papers on William Morris - 1934 with Graily Hewitt and James Shand
A Cross-Section of English Printing - 1918-1934 - Curwen Press 1935
The Early History of the Double Crown Club - 1935
Opening Speech at an Exhibition of Percy Smith's Typographical work - First Edition Club, 1935
Of the Uses of Books - 1937
Shopping and Taste: a lecture - 1937
The Printing of Books - 1938
The Aesthetics of Printing. - 1939
The Story of Don Vincente - 1939
Bookman's Holiday: A recreation for booklovers - 1945
The Reading Of Books - 1946
The Hunting of Books - 1947
The Complete Nonsense Of Edward Lear - 1947
On Art and Socialism. Essays and Lectures by William Morris - John Lehmann, 1947 editor
Dreamers of Dreams: The Rise and Fall of 19th Century Idealism - 1948 essays
Pleasures of Reading - 1948
Typophily - 1954 reprinted essay
William Caxton - the first English printer - 1959
GBS and the Lunatic - 1964
Sanctuary of Printing: the record room at the university press, Oxford
Thoughts on Book Design - 1968 with Paul Valery and Stanley Morison
Platitudes Undone: a Facsimile Edition of Holbrook Jackson's "Platitudes in the Making" With Original Handwritten Responses by G. K. Chesterton - 1997.                          

Founded the Leeds Arts Club with Alfred Richard Orag - 1903's.