James Freemantle

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rdf:langString James Freemantle (born 1979) is an English bibliographer, private press historian, printer and book-collector. His official posts include as Chairman of the Private Libraries Association, Trustee and Honorary Secretary of Milton's Cottage, and Member of the Double Crown Club, for which he is also Dinner Secretary. He has written for journals and magazines including The Private Library, Double Dagger, Parenthesis, Illustration and Matrix, amongst others and has published a book on the History of the Caradoc Press. He has been a Judge at the Oxford Fine Press Fair, curated an exhibition on the Private Press editions of Milton's Paradise Lost, engaged in speaking engagements on the history of the book, including at the Court Barn Museum and before the Oxford Guild of Printers, and been interviewed by Printweek, Fine Books & Collectors and Intelligent Collector James is also the proprietor of the St James Park Press, a Fine press printing by letterpress in London, England, whose work is in the collections of the National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Library at Tate Britain, and the Bodleian Library, and has been exhibited at Bath Spa University, the Museum of English Rural Life, and the University of York, amongst others.