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Some Unsolicited Testimonials
Barry McKay is quite literally
a man of letters. He’s a bibliopolist and a student of bibliography; that’s a bookseller who studies the history
of printing and making books. Barry’s home and office is in Kingstone House in Appleby, inside which every wall is covered
with books, from modern editions of textbooks on the arts of the book to ancient tomes with worn leather bindings and gilt
tooling – and a Roman stylus and wooden tablet filled with wax. This place really is a bibliophile’s heaven.
Sue
Allen,
Cumbria Life June/July 2008
Barry McKay plays football
without pads on and sells books the same way.
John
Ballinger
[He meant rugby union football
- but what can one expect from the former colony]
Barry McKay is one of the
most important voices in recent scholarship on 18th and 19th century chapbooks.
Kathy
Whalen
When I saw your cultivated
stroke play I was sorry you were not further up the order.
Peter
Miller (Captain of the PBFA Cricket XI)
On my batting v. the ABA, 4 July 1989
You can give a book an edge.
Dianna
Patterson.
Barry McKay you are an insufferable son of a bitch and a foreign imbecile, you are also
very funny. But you are a son of a bitch.
Marc Drogin.
And the utterly memorable:
You're
an antiquarian bookseller,
I didn't know there were that many books about fish.
Finally, a moment please
for the lady who received a book as a gift and said:
A book, how
nice, thank you but I’ve got one.
