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  • Notes on Contributors

Milton McC. Gatch is emeritus Professor of Church History and Director of the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He is presently surveying the history of medieval text manuscripts in the European book market, 1790-1830, to establish the context in which Leander van Ess and Sir Thomas Phillipps were concurrently collecting manuscripts.

Gerard G. Moate is the Vicar and Lecturer of Dedham in the Diocese of Chelmsford. He is currently doing doctoral research in The Life, Library and Legacy of William Burkitt (1650-1703) at the University of Essex, and is being supervised by Prof. James Raven.

Andrew Nash is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading. He has written and edited books and articles on Scottish literature and on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century publishing history and is currently co-editing Volume vii of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, covering the period 1914 to the present.

Matthew Payne is Senior Archivist (City Partners) at London Metropolitan Archives, having previously worked in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library. His publications include 'A New Manuscript of Thomas More's 'Fortune Verses', Review of English Studies (2009). He is the co-author of Regard ing Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827: His Life, Art and Acquaintance, published in 2010.

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Sydney Anglo FBA is Emeritus Professor of Swansea University, and his most recent books are The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe and Machi avelli — The First Century. Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance.

B. C. Barker-Benfield covered St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury for the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues (2008), and works in the Western Manuscripts section of the Department of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

James P. Carley teaches in the Department of English at York University, Toronto, and is an Associate Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. His most recent book is an edition and translation of John Leland's De uiris illustribus. [End Page 211]

John L. Flood is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies and a Past President of the Bibliographical Society.

Robert Laurie was until recently a Curator in the British Library Map Library.

Claire McIlroy is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Western Australia.

James Mosley was Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library from 1958 to 2000 and teaches in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading.

Paul W. Nash is a librarian and independent scholar in the fields of publishing and printing history, bibliography, and typography. [End Page 212]

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