Nicolas Barker

Nicolas John Barker OBE FBA FSA (born 1932) is a British historian of printing and books.[2][3] He was Head of Conservation at the British Library from 1976 to 1992 and is a former editor of The Book Collector.[4]

Nicolas Barker preparing to give the Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture, November 2022[1]

A bibliography of his work was published to mark his 80th birthday in 2012.[5] 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.[6][7]

Selected works
  • Barker, Nicolas (1972). Stanley Morison. London: Macmillan.
  • 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 (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, Nicolas (2000). The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian.
  • Barker, Nicolas (2003). Form and Meaning in the History of the Book. Selected Essays by Nicolas Barker. London: British Library.
  • John Carter; Nicolas Barker (2004). ABC for Book Collectors (8th ed.). ISBN 1584561122. icon of an open green padlock
  • Barker, Nicolas (2020). Reginald Heber: A Letter from India.

References
  1. "The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture". St Bride Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  2. "Nicolas Barker at Wells College". Wells Book Arts Center. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  3. Johnston, Alastair (2011). "Nicolas Barker". Hanging Quotes: Talking Book Arts, Typography & Poetry. Cuneiform Press. pp. 10–27. ISBN 9780982792667.
  4. "Author: Nicolas Barker". Carcanet. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. 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.
  6. "Barker, Nicolas John", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  7. "Mr Nicolas Barker", British Academy. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
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