Nicolas Barker
Nicolas John Barker OBE FBA FSA (born 1932) is a British historian of printing and books.[2][3] He was Head of Conservation at the British Library from 1976 to 1992 and is a former editor of The Book Collector.[4]
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998, and is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He held the The Sandars Readership in Bibliography in 1999-2000 and lectured on "Type and type-founding in Britain 1485–1720."
In 2002, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[5][6]
Barker gave the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography in 2002:"Things Not Reveal 'd: The Mutual Impact of Idea and Form in the Transmission of Poetry, 1500-2002."
A bibliography of his work was published to mark his 80th birthday in 2012.[7]
Selected works
- Barker, Nicolas (1972). Stanley Morison. London: Macmillan.
- Barker, Nicolas (1978). Bibliotheca Lindesiana: the Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres. London: for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club, and published by Bernard Quaritch
- Barker, Nicolas (1987). The Butterfly Books. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets. London: Bertram Rota.
- Barker, Nicolas (1988). Two East Anglian Picture Books.
- Barker, Nicolas (1989) Treasures of the British Library; compiled by Nicolas Barker and the curatorial staff of the British Library. New York: Harry N. Abrams ISBN 0-8109-1653-3
- Barker, Nicolas (2000). The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian.
- Barker, Nicolas (2003). Form and Meaning in the History of the Book. Selected Essays by Nicolas Barker. London: British Library.
- John Carter; Nicolas Barker (2004). ABC for Book Collectors (8th ed.). Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 1584561122.
- Barker, Nicolas (2020). Reginald Heber: A Letter from India.
References
- ^ "The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture". St Bride Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ "Nicolas Barker at Wells College". Wells Book Arts Center. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ Johnston, Alastair (2011). "Nicolas Barker". Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography & Poetry. Cuneiform Press. pp. 10–27. ISBN 9780982792667.
- ^ "Author: Nicolas Barker". Carcanet. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Barker, Nicolas John", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ "Mr Nicolas Barker", British Academy. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ^ Edwards, A. S. G. (2013). Nicolas Barker at Eighty: a list of his publications to mark his 80th birthday in 2012. New Castle: Oak Knoll. ISBN 9781584563235. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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