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THE FELLOWS

BRIAN ALDERSON

NICOLAS BARKER, O.B.E.

Editor of The Book Collector for more than a generation. Former President, and Gold Medallist of the Bibliographical Society. Fellow of the British Academy. First head of conservation at the British Library. Chairman of the London Library, the Laurence Sterne Trust and the Type Museum. Member of Faculty, Rare Book School, University of Virginia. Honorary Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (International). Author of Stanley Morison (1972); Bibliotheca Lindesiana (1977); The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978 (1978); Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century (1985); Treasures of the British Library (1988); A Potencie of Life : Books in Society (1993); Hortus Eystettensis : the Bishop's Garden and Besler's Magnificent Book (1994); Form and Meaning in the History of the Book (2003), Things not Reveal'd : the Mutual Impact of Idea and Form in the Transmission of Verse (2004), etc. Contributor to The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. And the editor of recent editions of John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors.

ASHLEY BAYNTON-WILLIAMS

Editor and frequent contributor to MapForum (both in its printed form and in its earlier online existence). A third-generation mapseller - baynton-williams.com - specialising in broadsheet maps and with an unrivalled reputation in the trade - and a consultant to major collections and auction-houses. Author of Town and City Maps of the British Isles 1800-1855 (1992). His principal research interest is the history of map publishing in the British Isles to 1800.

TIM BRYARS

Tim Bryars is a London bookseller - Tim Bryars Ltd. - specialising in early printing, classical texts and translations, atlases and books with maps, early maps of all regions, illustrated travels, and antique topographical and natural history prints. He was formerly a director of Paralos Ltd., an international concern, with offices in both London and Athens - and now also in Corfu. A member of the Education Sub-Committee of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (International).

MARGARET LANE FORD

Head of Books & Manuscripts Department, Christie's, London. Secretary of the Bibliographical Society. Member of the Early Book Society. Compiler of Christ, Plato, Hermes Trismegistus : The Dawn of Printing : Catalogue of the Incunabula in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (1990). Contributor to The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain; Essays in Honor of William B. Todd (1991); A Living of Words : American Women in Print Culture (1995); Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; The Library, etc.

RICHARD FORD

KENNETH FULLER

Managing Director, Marchpane Ltd. - the leading London bookshop specialising in Children's and Illustrated books, established in 1989. Previously Director, Ash Rare Books - also worked at Henry Sotheran Ltd. and the National Library of Scotland.

ROGER GASKELL

Of - Roger Gaskell Rare Books - began his career as a bookseller with a student holiday job dusting books in the basement of Galloway & Porter in Cambridge. After studying biochemistry at Bristol University, (B.Sc., 1971), he went to work for Bernard Quaritch Ltd., in London, taking over the management of the Science and Medicine department in 1977. He joined Pickering & Chatto Ltd. in 1981, when the firm, under the ownership of William Rees-Mogg, was merged with Dawson's of Pall Mall, one of the leading specialists in science and medicine. While there he set up Pickering & Chatto Publishers, now a successful independent business. He became managing director at Pickering's (as well as running the Science and Medicine department) before leaving in 1989 to set up Roger Gaskell Rare Books. His The Terms of the Trade : A Guide to Bookseller's Descriptions of Rare Books is available on his website - as are details of some recent lectures on bibliography.

DR. DONALD HODSON

Leading authority on British cartography and author of The Printed Maps of Hertfordshire, 1577-1900 (1974); Early Portsmouth Maps (1978); Maps of Portsmouth before 1801 (1978); Four County Maps of Hertfordshire (1985); County Atlases of the British Isles published after 1703 : a Bibliography (1984-1997); The Early Printed Road Books and Itineraries of England and Wales (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, 2000). Editor (with J. Brian Harley) of The Royal English Atlas : Eighteenth Century County Maps of England and Wales (1971).

JOLYON HUDSON

RUTH KIDSON

Ruth Kidson has been dealing in old books for twelve years and has been selling on the internet since 1997. She has served on the National Executive Committee of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and is currently an elected Member of the Council and a member of the Education Sub-Committee of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (International). She has a postgraduate Diploma in Antiquarian Bookselling from London University and, as well as being a bookseller, she is a writer on various subjects and has written a number of articles for Bookdealer, the trade journal.

BRIAN LAKE

GEORGE LOCKE

Originally trained and qualified as a pharmacist, thereafter sub-editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal and editor of Sailplane & Gliding. A collector of early science fiction and fantasy for many years, becoming a full-time bookseller specialising in these subjects about 1972, extending the inventory to include crime fiction and then pre-1950 fiction in general. Now widely recognised in the book trade as the most knowledgeable dealer in the byways of science fiction, fantasy and crime fiction. Author of Voyages in Space : A Bibliography of Interplanetary Fiction 1801-1914 (1975); Science Fiction First Editions : A Select Bibliography and Notes for the Collector (1978); A Spectrum of Fantasy : The Bibliography and Biography of a Collection of Fantastic Literature (three volumes, 1980-2002 - plus occasional supplements); Thirty years of Dustwrappers : 1884-1914 (1988); Pearson's Weekly : A Checklist of Fiction, 1890-1939 (1990); The Premier Magazine 1914 to 1931 : An Annotated Checklist (1999), etc. Editor of A.E.Waite : The Quest for Bloods : A Study of the Victorian Penny Dreadful (1997); and (with Takayuki Tatsumi) of Sources of Science Fiction : Future War Novels of the 1890s (1998). Now semi-retired - and twice as busy as ever!

ANGUS O'NEILL

JOHN PRICE

JAMES RAVEN

Professor of History at the University of Essex. Formerly Reader in Social and Cultural History at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford; Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Munby Fellow in Bibliography and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. A member of the American Antiquarian Society, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a founding Director of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. He has also held various visiting appointments in the United States, France and Britain. Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust and Director of the Mapping the Print Culture of Eighteenth-Century London project. Author of British fiction, 1750-1770 : a Chronological Check-List of Prose Fiction printed in Britain and Ireland (1987); Judging New Wealth : Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800 (1992); London Booksellers and American customers : Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811 (2001). Editor of Free print and Non-Commercial Publishing since 1700 (2000); Lost Libraries : the Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity (2004); (with Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor) The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (1996); and (with Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling) The English novel 1770-1829 : a bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (2000). Contributor to The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, as well as to a many other publications, including the journals Publishing History, Libraries and Culture, etc.

ANTHONY ROTA

World-respected dealer in first editions and manuscripts - Bertram Rota Ltd. - for over half a century. Past President and now Honorary Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (International). Past President and President of Honour of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He has taught and lectured widely both in the British Isles and in the U.S.A. - at the Rare Book School and elsewhere. Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Tulsa. Recipient of the DeGolyer Medal for "distinguished services to the world of books". Author of Points at Issue : a Bookseller Looks at Bibliography (1984), The Changing Face of Antiquarian Bookselling 1950-2000 A.D. (1995), Apart from the Text (1998), Books in the Blood : Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller (2002), etc.

JULIAN ROTA

DR. DAVID SHAW

Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). Former President of the Bibliographical Society. Specialist in the history of printing in Europe (especially France) in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Editor-in-Chief of the Bibliographical Society's Cathedral Libraries Catalogue project. Author and tutor (with Sarah Gray) of two modules on Rare Books Librarianship for B.Sc. by distance-learning at the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

LAURENCE WORMS

Proprietor of Ash Rare Books in London since 1971. Former Hon. Sec. and currently (for the third time) an elected Member of the Council of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (International). Represented the antiquarian book trade on the (British) National Book Committee from 1993 to 2002. Former member of the Council of the Bibliographical Society. Council Member of the London Topographical Society. Recently published work includes the contribution of over a dozen "lives" to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and a major essay for the most recent volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain.

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