Nicolas Barker

Nicolas John Barker, OBE FBA FSA (born 1932) is a British historian of printing and books.[1] He was Head of Conservation at the British Library from 1976 to 1992 and is a former editor of The Book Collector.[2] He is the Chair of the Type Archive in London.[3]

A collection of his work was published to mark his 80th birthday in 2012.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998, and is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London; in 2002, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[5][6]

Works (selected)
  • John Carter; Nicolas Barker (2004). ABC for Book Collectors (8th ed.). ISBN 1584561122.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2000). The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian.
  • Barker, Nicolas (1988). Two East Anglian Picture Books.
  • Barker, Nicolas (1978). Bibliotheca Lindesiana: the Lives and Collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres. London: for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club, and published by Bernard Quaritch
gollark: Purity is impossible. All is impure until we reshape the universe to be an ideal Turing machine or something.
gollark: If you try to use 1TB of RAM to store your infinite list of [1..], then your program will probably get killed.
gollark: Anyway, disregarding that, it technically *does* still have side effects, even ones within those contexts.
gollark: Haskell is impure because it has unsafePerformIO. QED.
gollark: But I don't think you can get around the heat issue because of annoying physical laws, even if you move computers onto photonics or something so they do not deal with pesky electricity.

References
  1. "Nicolas Barker at Wells College". Wells Book Arts Center. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  2. "Author: Nicolas Barker". Carcanet. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. "Trustees". The Type Archive. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  4. Edwards, A. S. G. (2013). Nicolas Barker at Eighty: a list of his publications to mark his 80th birthday in 2012. New Castle: Oak Knoll. ISBN 9781584563235. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. "Barker, Nicolas John", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  6. "Mr Nicolas Barker", British Academy. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
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