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Live fast, move faster

When I was 24 I got my hands on a small 49cc moped and drove it at great speed around London and then up and down the Thames Valley. I went as far as Oxford, about 60 miles away, selling prints of the bridges of the River Thames taken from a book published in 1832. I had had the pages reproduced and printed and sold these framed in card.

It was my second innovation as a publisher and one I enjoyed, especially the freedom of being on a little motor engine. Being able to zip wherever

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