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  • Notes on Contributors

Peter Lindenbaum was a specialist in the seventeenth-century book trade. He was Professor of English and founder of the History of the Book and Renaissance Studies programmes at Indiana University and in his final years was affiliated with the Institute for English Studies, University of London.

André Jammes directs the Librairie Paul Jammes, founded by his father in Paris. He is the author of La Réforme de la typographie royale sous Louis XIV. Le Grandjean. Étude accompagnée de CX cuivres originaux conservés à l'Imprimerie nationale (1961), and many other works on the history of typography and photography.

Nicolas Barker is a Past President of the Bibliographical Society (1982–84), and has been editor of The Book Collector since 1965.

Daniel Cook is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and the Assistant Director of The Centre for Romantic Studies at the University of Bristol. He is currently editing The Lives of Jonathan Swift, 3 vols (Routledge, 2011) and working on a book length study on resistance to literary biography in the eighteenth century.

David Shaw is a former Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries and a Past President of the Bibliographical Society. He is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent and his research is particularly on the printed book in fifteenth and sixteenth-century France.

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A. S. G. Edwards is Professor of Textual Studies in the Department of English and Creative Writing, De Montfort University, Leicester.

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

Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Consultant Scholar-Editor at Oxford University Press, is a classical scholar and the author of Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement (Oxford, 2003).

Barry Taylor is a Curator of Hispanic Collections at the British Library. [End Page 491]

Germaine Warkentin is Professor Emeritus of English in the University of Toronto. With William R. Bowen and Joseph L. Black she is completing a critical edition of the Penshurst Place Library.

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