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This is no on-your-knees, aren't they wonderful corporate biography. It's a well-researched, largely accurate, acute, sometimes very funny analysis of a company which steps from scandal and hot water into the sunlight of success every month of the year Godfrey Barker, LITERARY REVIEW'

'This is no on-your-knees, aren't they wonderful corporate biography. It's a well-researched, largely accurate, acute, sometimes very funny analysis of a company which steps from scandal and hot water into the sunlight of success every month of the year' Godfrey Barker, LITERARY REVIEW' 'Written by the same old pacy, racy Lacey familiar to us from his royal books ... his talent for winkling out piquant detail is at its best' Bevis Hillier, SPECATOR '[This is] no corporate biography byt a pacy, racy book on the auction house and its characters.' ANTIQUES TRADE GAZETTE 'This is about as readable an introduction to the guiles of modern auctioneering, including its sharper practices, as you are likely to find.' ART REVIEW 'Pacy and well-reseached.' COUNTRY LIFE