Fifty not out
HALF a century ago, Charles Ede set up his eponymous gallery dealing in Classical and Pre-Classical antiquities from Greece, Egypt, Italy, Cyprus and the Near East. He was himself 50 years old at the time and, although it was a second career, it grew out of the first.
After wartime service in the Royal Tank Regiment and, later, Intelligence, he decided to go to the London School of Printing rather than take up the place at Oxford he had been awarded in 1939. This led him, with Alan Bott, founder of Pan Books, and Christopher Sandford,
