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Nicolas Barker

{{Short description|British historian of printing and books (born 1932)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Nicolas John Barker {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FBA|FSA}} (born 1932) is a British historian of printing and books.{{cite web|title=Nicolas Barker at Wells College|url=https://wellsbookartscenter.org/2013/10/13/nicolas-barker-at-wells-college/|website=Wells Book Arts Center|date=14 October 2013 |access-date=5 October 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Johnston |first1=Alastair |title=Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography & Poetry |date=2011 |publisher=Cuneiform Press |isbn=9780982792667 |pages=10–27 |chapter=Nicolas Barker}} He was Head of Conservation at the British Library from 1976 to 1992.

Barker was editor of The Book Collector from 1965 to 2016{{cite web|title=Author: Nicolas Barker|url=http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=1124|publisher=Carcanet Press|access-date=5 October 2017}} and edited The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of the Book Collector, an Anthology. Barker, Nicolas (2003). The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of the Book Collector, an Anthology''. Edited by Nicolas J. Barker. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2003.

He was elected to the Roxburghe Club in 1970.[https://www.roxburgheclub.org.uk/membership/ Roxburghe Club Members.]Roxburghe Club. In 2000 The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian. A Facsimile from the manuscript in the Wormsley Library. With a Study by Nicolas Barker was published for presentation to his fellow members of the Roxburghe Club.Robert. "Thomas Trevilian's 'Great Book': 'Historicall, Propheticall and Evangelicall{{'"}}. The British Art Journal 1, no. 2 (2000): 22–23.Jervis, Simon. "The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian. A Facsimile from the Manuscript in the Wormsley Library". The Burlington Magazine. London: The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd, 2004. It was printed in red and black by Susan Shaw at the Merrion Press. Sir Paul Getty commissioned the reproduction.[https://www.maggs.com/departments/roxburghe_club/all_categories/229957/ The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian. A Facsimile from the manuscript in the Wormsley Library.]

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998, and is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in 1999–2000 and lectured on "Type and type-founding in Britain 1485–1720".

In 2002, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6489 "Barker, Nicolas John"], Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 March 2018.[https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/mr-nicolas-barker "Mr Nicolas Barker"], British Academy. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

Barker gave the 2002 Panizzi Lecture at the British Library and was the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002.

A bibliography of his work was published to mark his 80th birthday in 2012.{{cite book|last1=Edwards|first1=A. S. G.|title=Nicolas Barker at Eighty: a list of his publications to mark his 80th birthday in 2012|date=2013|publisher=Oak Knoll Press and Bernard Quaritch Ltd|location=New Castle|isbn=9781584563235|url=https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/118364/a-s-g-edwards/nicolas-barker-at-eighty-a-list-of-his-publications-to-mark-his-80th-birthday-in-2012|access-date=5 October 2017}}

Selected works

  • Barker, Nicolas. 1964. The Publications of the Roxburghe Club, 1814–1962. an Essay with a Bibliographical Table. Cambridge: Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club.
  • Barker, Nicolas. 1968. "The Book as Artefact". The Book Collector 17 (no. 2), Summer: 143–150.
  • Barker, Nicolas (1972). Stanley Morison. London: Macmillan.
  • Barker, Nicolas, 1976. "Caxton's Quincentenary: Retrospect". The Book Collector 25 (no. 4), Winter: 455–480.
  • 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
  • Barker, Nicolas (1978). The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478–1978: An Illustrated History. Oxford England: Clarendon Press.
  • Barker, Nicolas. (1985). "Libraries and the National Heritage: Two Views from Europe". The Book Collector 34 (no. 2): Summer: 145–172.
  • Barker, Nicolas (1987). The Butterfly Books. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets. London: Bertram Rota.
  • Barker, Nicolas (1988). Two East Anglian Picture Books.
  • Barker, Nicolas (1989). Treasures of the British Library; compiled by Nicolas Barker and the curatorial staff of the British Library. New York: Harry N. Abrams {{ISBN|0-8109-1653-3}}
  • Barker, Nicholas (1992). "The Author as Editor". The Book Collector 41 (no. 1), Spring: 9–27.
  • Barker, Nicolas, and British Library (1993). A Potencie of Life : Books in Society : The Clark Lectures 1986–1987. London: British Library.
  • Barker, Nicolas, and Basilius Besler. 1994. Hortus Eystettensis: The Bishop’s Garden and Besler's Magnificent Book. New York: H.N. Abrams.
  • Barker, Nicolas. Grolier Club, Royal Oak Foundation, and Stinehour Press. (1999). Treasures from the Libraries of National Trust Country Houses. New York: Royal Oak Foundation & The Grolier Club.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2000). The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian: A Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Wormsley Library. London: Published by Susan Shaw for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club.
  • Barker, Nicolas Barker (2002). "Fifty Years On." (fifty years of The Book Collector). The Book Collector 51 (no. 4): Winter: 481–489.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2003). Form and Meaning in the History of the Book. Selected Essays by Nicolas Barker. London: British Library.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2003). The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of the Book Collector, an Anthology. Edited by Nicolas J. Barker. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2003.
  • {{cite book |author1=John Carter |author2=Nicolas Barker |url= http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/30-john_carters_abc_for_book_collectors.html |title=ABC for Book Collectors |edition= 8th |isbn= 1584561122 |year= 2004 |publisher=Oak Knoll Press |author1-link=John Carter (Author) }} {{free access}}
  • Barker, Nicolas, and British Library (2005). Treasures of the British Library. London: British Library.
  • Barker, Nicolas, "Introduction" in Cronenwett, Philip N., Kevin Osborn, and Samuel Allen Streit. 2007. Celebrating Research : Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries.
  • Barker, Nicolas. "Preface" in Wendorf, Richard. 2007. America’s Membership Libraries. 1st edn. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2012). The Roxburghe Club: a bicentenary history. Cambridge: Roxburghe Club.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2016). Visible Voices : Translating Verse into Script & Print, 3000 BC–AD 2000. 2016. Manchester: Carcanet.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2019). At First, All Went Well ...: And Other Brief Lives. London: Bernard Quaritch.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2019). The Pirie Library: A Short-Title Catalogue of the Collection of Robert S. Pirie: With Indexes of Provenances, Sources, Bindings, Armorials and Devices & a List of Prices. London: Bernard Quaritch.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2020). Reginald Heber: A Letter from India.

References

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External links

  • [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-barker-aa477818 LinkedIn]

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