Nicolas Barker

Nicolas John Barker (born 1932) is a British historian of printing and books. He was Head of Conservation at the British Library from 1976 to 1992.

Barker was editor of ''The Book Collector'' from 1965-2016 and edited ''The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of the Book Collector, an Anthology.

He was elected to the Roxburghe Club in 1970. 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. It was printed in red and black by Susan Shaw at the Merrion Press. Sir Paul Getty commissioned the reproduction.

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.

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. Provided by Wikipedia