Francis Bacon's Library

Reading Francis Bacon's art through his personal book collection

This is the first publication to deal exclusively with the fascinating subject of Francis Bacon's collection of books and magazines and its role as visual and intellectual source material for his paintings. Bacon was a bibliophile who owned around 1,300 publications on a host of subjects as diverse as art, photography, cinema, sport, travel, cookery, the occult, politics, philosophy, history, antiquity, medical issues and many ...