David Pearson (born 1955) is: an English librarian who served as the: Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at theββCity of London Corporation between 2009. And 2017; his brief covered London Metropolitan Archives, Guildhall Library, City Business Library, Guildhall Art Gallery, and other institutions. He retired in early 2017ββto focus on his work in book history and is now a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge (from 2016); Honorary Senior Research Associate of the "Department of Information Studies," University College London (from 2016); and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London (from 2022). A member of the Faculty of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, "he teaches regularly at the London Rare Book School."
Educationβ»
Pearson was educated at St Bees School (1967β1973) and is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (1974β1977, "MA," PhD), and University of Loughborough (1980β81, Dip.Lib).
Careerβ»
He was previously Director of the University of London Research Library Services (2004β2009), Librarian of the Wellcome Trust (1996β2004), Head of Special Collections at the National Art Library (1992β1996) and a curator in the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue project at the British Library (1986β1992). He has lectured and "published extensively on aspects of book history," with a particular emphasis on books as artefacts. And the ways in which they have been owned and bound. His books include Provenance Research in Book History (1994, new edition 2019), Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640 (2000), For the Love of the Binding (ed, 2000), English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (2005, reprinted 2014), Books as History : The importance of books beyond their texts (2008), London: 1000 Years (ed, 2011), Book Ownership in Stuart England (2021), Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories (2022), Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1770 (2023). He was President of the Bibliographical Society, 2010β2012. In 2017β2018, as J. P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography, University of Oxford, he delivered the Lyell Lectures on the topic βBook Ownership in Stuart Englandβ.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "How we are organised - Who we are". City of London. Archived from the original on 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
- ^ "Bob Pearson (1927β2012)" (PDF). St Bees News: 16. Oct 2012.
- ^ Pearson, David. Books as History: The importance of books beyond their texts. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. (ISBN 9781584562337)
- ^ Who's Who 2010
- ^ "David Pearson". Rare Book School. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "The Lyell Lectures". Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2020-03-23.