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  • Notes on Contributors

Anne F. Sutton is historian emerita of the Mercers’ Company of London. She is author of The Mercery of London. Trade, Goods and People 1130–1578 and many articles on late medieval London history, William Caxton, Thomas Malory, and the Yorkist period. She is also co-author of Richard III’s Books and The Hours of Richard III.

Sharon Achinstein is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Oxford, and is currently preparing an edition of John Milton’s divorce tracts for The Complete Works of John Milton (Oxford University Press).

Benjamin Burton received his D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford in 2010, and is currently working on a digital humanities project, FORM Forms Online: Renaissance to Modern.

Janice Cavell is a historian working for the Canadian government and an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. She is the author of Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818–1860 (2008) and numerous journal articles, and co-author of Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918–25 (2010)

Hazel Wilkinson is a final year PhD student at University College London, researching a thesis on the eighteenth-century editions of Edmund Spenser. She is also working on a study of the Tonsons’ printers, 1700–85.

William Poole is John Galsworthy Fellow and Tutor in English, New College, Oxford. He writes on early-modern intellectual history and bibliography. Recent publications include The World Makers (2010), John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning (2010), and, with Felicity Henderson, an edition of the complete writings of Francis Lodwick (2001).

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James Willoughby is a fellow of New College, Oxford. He is an editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues and director of the Mellon Foundation-funded project Medieval Libraries of Great Britain.

Cecil H. Clough was previously Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool.

Adri K. Offenberg published the Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Library, vol. xiii: Hebraica in 2004. [End Page 120]

Neil Harris is Professor of Bibliography and Library Studies at the University of Udine in Italy.

Kristian Jensen is Head of Arts and Humanities at The British Library.

David Pearson is Director of Libraries, Archives, and the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London. He is immediate Past President of the Bibliographical Society and has written extensively on the history of bookbinding, and private libraries.

Karen Attar is the Rare Books Librarian at Senate House Library, University of London and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London. [End Page 121]

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