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  • Notes on Contributors

Jane Brown is a retired academic. Her areas of interest include book and periodical artists in the early and mid-Victorian period, with particular reference to children's illustrated books. She is the author with Richard Samuel West of William Newman: A Victorian Cartoonist in London and New York (2008).

Gregory Jones is Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, where he chaired the Department of Psychology. He has wide interests in the nineteenth-century book and recently gave a collection of antiquarian human sciences books to the Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick.

Susie West is Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University. An architectural historian, her published work focuses on the English country house and she is presently completing a study of the country house library, 1660-1830.

Anthony James West is an expert on the history of the Shakespeare First Folio. He curated the First Folio Exhibition at the Folger Library in 2011. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, London.

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Roger Gaskell is an antiquarian bookseller specialising in early modern scientific and medical books.

Christian Coppens was previously curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Central University Library, Leuven. He is currently working on a census of sixteenth century booksellers catalogues to be published by The Bibliographical Society.

Barry Taylor is Curator of Hispanic Printed Collections at the British Library.

William Poole is John Galsworthy Fellow and Tutor in English, New College, Oxford.

S. J. V. Malloch lectures in Roman history and Latin at the University of Nottingham. His edition of Tacitus Annals 11 was published by Cambridge University Press this year.

Emily Dourish undertook a doctorate in medieval history before joining Cambridge University Library, where she is a Rare Books Specialist. [End Page 493]

Angus O'Neill has been a full-time bookseller since graduating from Cambridge in 1982. He is an elected member of the Council of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, and trades by post from central London as Omega Bookshop.

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