...Stuart Hannabuss Andrew   Norman . Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait . Stroud : Tempus Publishing   2007 . , ISBN: 978‐0‐7524‐4288‐4 paperback   £9.99 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Detective fiction Crime Biography Literature Crime...

...Robin Myers; Michael Harris; Giles Mandelbrote Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century . Oak Knoll Press and the British Library , 2002 . xiv+208 pp.   £24.96 Oak Knoll: 1‐58456‐094‐0 British Library: 0‐7123‐4796‐8 © Emerald Group...

... Biography Authors This is the largest and longest‐running of 40 research projects begun in the National Library of Austria since 1988. That date is significant for Jews in that it coincided with Dr Kurt Waldheim’s tenure of the Presidency of Austria, during which he endured accusations of his...

...Ian Rogerson Biography Design Books Rudolf Koch was the most influential figure in twentieth century book design in Germany prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. His life was dedicated to the German black letter, in all its forms, which he saw as central to the cultural life...

... on the third day of the second West Indies Test Match. K.C.   Harrison . A Librarian’s Odyssey: Episodes of Autobiography . Eastbourne, Sussex : The author   2000 . viii+232pp. , ISBN: 0 9538068 0 4   £17.00 Libraries History Librarians Biography Born 85 years ago...

... of 1636 while Harvard himself was still in England; but at his death in 1638 he bequeathed half of his estate and all his books to the college. The nature of his private library is described and discussed. © MCB UP Limited 2000 University libraries History Biography USA It must go...

... fitting and necessary to discern and to emulate something of the historical role of the printed book, on both sides of the Atlantic, and surely the whole inspiring story of William Roscoe as a book collector must minister to that. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Biography Books William Roscoe...

... and Their Background , Macmillan , London. Biography History Private libraries A curious and interesting facet of the whole Brontë story – even as it was eventually set amidst the bleak moorlands of Yorkshire, at Haworth – is the education of Patrick Brontë (1777‐1861), father of the three very gifted...

...Stuart James David   Gerard . Another Country: A Season in Archaeology . Wilmslow : Elvet Press   1994 . 133 pp. , ISBN: 0 9510076 4 3   £5.50 Biography History Librarians What makes up a librarian? Surely it must be the whole man or woman. We are none of us...

... did succeed (although the successes in book‐publishing from the Victorian period include several “great names” of today, including Macmillan). © MCB UP Limited 1999 Biography Career development History Publishing United Kingdom Alexander Strahan (1834‐1914) was the London...

...Stuart James David   Gerard . Brief Transit: Through a Viewfinder 1942‐1946 . Wilmslow : Elvet Press   1996 . 370 pp. , ISBN: 0 9510076 6 X   £7.50 Biography History Librarians What makes up a librarian? Surely it must be the whole man or woman. We are none...

...K.C. Harrison Wilfred J.   Plumbe . Cry of the Fish Eagle . Glasgow : Dudu Nsumba Publications   1998 . 180 pp. , ISBN: 0 9522233 9 2   £19.00 Africa Biography Librarians Wilfred Plumbe is an English librarian with a remarkable record. Without having had...

... seminal 1979 biography Sir Robert Cotton 1586 ‐1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England. Nigel Ramsay’s “Sir Robert Cotton’s services to the crown: a paper written in self‐defence” focuses on a document now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in Cotton’s hand. The very difficult‐to‐read...

... libraries (SCONUL), in Whatley, H.A (Ed.), British Librarianship and Information Science, 1966‐1970, Library Association, London, pp. 676‐9. Librarian of Queen’s University Belfast. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Academic libraries Bibliography Biography Deputy Librarian...

... example, the importance of keeping good news about libraries and librarianship in the public eye.” Henry clearly took this to heart, and throughout his later career it was a precept he followed and recommended widely to others. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Academic libraries Biography Careers UK...

... and almost at the end of his career as an antiquarian bookseller. Nevertheless, it is significant that, even so late in his life, he should have had the time and the energy to encourage publishing, alongside the book trade. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Biography Book trade Bernard Quaritch (1819...

...? William R.   Eshelman . No Silence! A Library Life . Lanham Md : Scarecrow Press   1997 . 340 pp , ISBN: 0 8108 3241 0   £56 UK distribution by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone Biography Librarianship USA “With my promotion to Serials Librarian I began the year 1952 spending...

..., as Head of the Library Section of the National Board of Education in Stockholm from 1945‐1969. Explains also his influence on British librarianship. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Biography Libraries Scandinavia Sweden Bengt Hjelmqvist at 90 K.C. Harrison Bengt Hjelmqvist at 90 In October 1993...

... of the post into that of a professional librarian in the twentieth century is illustrated. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Biography Librarians The Librarians of Glasgow University over 350 Years: 1641-1991 Peter Hoare University of Nottingham Librarians of Glasgow University 27 No complete list...

...Stuart James The 150th anniversary of Thomas Hardy′s birth is briefly noted and a number of recent publications on the author and his work are noted in the context of his corpus of critical material on him. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Biography Literature Publishing Thomas Hardy 1840/1990...