LibraryThing Author: David Russell

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Biographical dictionary of English literature (Everyman's Library : Reference) by John William Cousin

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Library3,008 books — see library

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Tags6lit (280), 7lit (168), 11lit (156), 10art (124), 8lit (121), 9lit (100), 4ero (99), 3a (96), 4art (87), cablit (83) — see all tags

GroupsBBC Radio 3 Listeners, Erotica, French Connection

About me I am English (Scottish) painter and writer. Wrote world's first erotic pop-up book: 'the Secret Carnival'. After 18 years in Italy now live in France. Just published 'Magic of the Picture Plane', paintings 1956-1970. Also published 'Sophie's Dream Book' an illustrated erotic novel

About my library At last I have space for all my books, four walls. I have another 2000 to catalogue...an exercise in nostalgia, from Chick's Own Annual to the Sex Collectors. Busiest categories erotica and art.

Homepagehttp://davidrussell-art.com

Real nameDavid Russell

LocationCompiègne, France

Emaildavid.f.russellwanadoo.fr

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Account typepublic, lifetime

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/poliphilus (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/poliphilus (library)

Member sinceOct 24, 2006

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You actually were in LC's rooms at Oxford? Wow, colour me jealous!.. ;-) No, fortunately that's not one of my foibles. Yes, I'm Dutch and a newbie here on LibraryThing - so I've plenty more to catalogue here (only at about 2 or 3 % now).

A quick introduction: I studied Art History at Leiden University (I started out reading Physics, but decided that was not for me). Anyway: unable to find academic work after graduation, I continued working as a cartoonist - the line of work which had helped pay my way through college years. Never lived in a houseboat in Amsterdam myself, but did live in Los Angeles in a house with swimming pool provided by Warner Bros - something one could get used to, but I missed good old Europe.

posted by BarkingMatt at 9:56 am (EST) on Dec 24, 2007

Great story, I love the botanic gardens at Naples and (especially) those at Palermo. I don't know why but still haven't made it to Tenerife. (This weekend I was looking longingly from my Funchal Hotel room at the car ferry to the Canaries).

I've lived for the past twenty years in Portugal. Please stay in touch.

Gerald

posted by botanica at 4:06 pm (EST) on Sep 18, 2007

Hello David,
There seems to be a dearth of Librarythingers in France. At least according to my map. In the early stages of cataloging your library regularly popped up, but now I'm slogging through the manual cataloguing and you seem to have fallen off the list. Quite a good overlap in the kitchen and garden. Anyhow 75 shared titles is not bad, including some pretty odd stuff. I'm sure neither of us have ever read «The practical way to keep fit»!

Gerald
Portugal

posted by botanica at 2:59 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2007

I was intrigued to find that you and I are the only two members of LibraryThing who possess copies of that lonely masterpiece "Lost Diaries" by Maurice Baring. All the historical chracters are obvious - except the eponymous James Lee of "From the diary of Mrs James Lee's husband
- do you know him?

Piscator

posted by joefisher at 2:38 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2007

I think Godwin's English Poliphilo is terrific. There's a hilarious moment in Casanova's Life when he is speaking about the occult sciences with Madame d'Urfe and she asks if he is familiar with a set of talismans. He replies, "I never heard of them, but I know Polyphilus's." Of course, there are no traditional talismans in the Hypnerotomachia; he seems to have been bluffing/testing her with a cryptic allusion to Poliphilo's erotic woodcuts. (It's on p. 112 of vol. V in the Trask translation of Casanova.)

posted by paradoxosalpha at 12:52 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2007

I love your handle; I wrote my MA Thesis on the Hypnerotomachia. I don't know if you use images in LT much, but I've just uploaded a scan of Mavis Batey's Alice's Adventures in Oxford, so this is just a note to let you know it's available.

posted by paradoxosalpha at 7:26 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2007

I deleted and readded the book myself, but it's still listing Percy Alfred Scholes as the author, despite that being nowhere in the amazon.jp information.
Go ahead and add the book again; I'll report it in the bug forum. Not much else I can do.

posted by doceirias at 6:45 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2007

Let's try deleting it. Hopefully that will disconnect the two...

posted by doceirias at 9:28 pm (EST) on Apr 13, 2007

I'm hoping you can help me sort out a system error of some kind - a Japanese language manga I own (The World is Mine 1) is attaching itself to a book you have (A List of Books About Music in the English Language, Prepared as an Appencix to the Oxford Companion to Music), and I can't seem to get it to separate. I'm hoping there's something on your entry, like an incorrect ISBN, that will solve this problem.
You also have the word Appendix spelled wrong in the title, which I thought you might like to change.

posted by doceirias at 1:48 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2007

You have a fantastic collection; I'll be interested to see the rest! The cataloguing process is surprisingly addictive, as you've no doubt discovered already.

posted by eccentrica at 12:20 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2007

Tagged ero? how very proper of you.

posted by PrivatePorn at 12:57 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2007

I read a few reviews of The Sex Collectors, and I believe an excerpt in some magazine--can I count those? I read Story of the Eye a long time ago, and absolutely loved it. Recently I read Blue of Noon, and ...did not. If I ever get around to the huge Michel Surya biography I have, maybe I'll know where I stand. Have you read that?

Good luck with the cataloging. A compulsive personality helps. At least it helped me. Not suggesting you have one, of course, but then you do have over three thousand books!

I'm off to crawl through your library, AND your web site. I've only had a moment to look, but the paintings are spectacular. Sorry for the tardy response. I have to learn to scroll down.

posted by Gmmmm at 10:27 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2006

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