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]

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 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.[5][6]

Barker gave the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography in 2002:"Things Not Reveal 'd: The Mutual Impact of Idea and Form in the Transmission of Poetry, 1500-2002."

A bibliography of his work was published to mark his 80th birthday in 2012.[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 (1978).The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978: An Illustrated History. Oxford England: Clarendon Press.
  • 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, 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: Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club.
  • 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.). Oak Knoll Press. ISBN 1584561122.
  • Barker, Nicolas, and British Library. (2005). Treasures of the British Library. London: British Library.
  • 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
  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. "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.
  7. 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.
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