Martin Goldman 1983 Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, in association with Adam Hilger 224 pp price £18 (IOP members' price £14.50) ISBN 0 86228 026 5

Don't be too put off by the dreadful title, and don't be too put off by the interminable misprints, or by the extraordinary punctuation, or by finding the same quotation, from the 'official' biography, used twice within ten or a dozen pages. Again, don't be too put off to find that the plates referred to in the text do not exist, or that the text figures have either been quite wrongly labelled (p126) or not labelled at all (p148), or that there is no proper bibliography.