Henry Thomas (bibliographer)
Sir Henry Thomas,
Norman MacColl lectures at the University of Cambridge (1917) and the Taylorian Lecture at the University of Oxford (1922), was president of the Anglo-Spanish Society (1931 to 1947) and the Bibliographical Society (1936 to 1938), was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1936, and knighted in 1946; he received DLitt degrees from the University of Birmingham and the University of London.[1][2]
Selected works
- The Romance of Amadís of Gaul (London: Blades, East and Blades, 1912; 2nd ed., 1916).
- The Palmerin Romances (London: Blades, East and Blades, 1916).
- Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920).
- Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in Spain and of Spanish Books Printed elsewhere in Europe before 1601 Now in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1921).
- Shakespeare and Spain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922).
- Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in France and of French Books Printed in Other Countries from 1470 to 1600 Now in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1924).
- Spanish Sixteenth-Century Printing (London: Ernest Benn, 1926).
- The Beginnings of Printing in London (London: Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1928).
- Monster and Miracle (Sonning-on-Thames: Manor House Press, 1935).
- The Star of Seville (Newton: Gregynog Press, 1935).
- The Discovery of Abyssinia by the Portuguese in 1520 (London: British Museum, 1938).
- The Crafty Farmer. A Spanish Folk-Tale. Illustrated by Gregorio Prieto (London: Dolphin Bookshop Editions, 1938).
- Early Spanish Bookbindings, XI–XV Centuries (London: Bibliographical Society, 1939).
- Short-Title Catalogue of Portuguese Books Printed before 1601 Now in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1940).
- Short-Title Catalogue of Spanish-American Books Printed before 1601 Now in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1944).
- Anti-English Propaganda in the Time of Queen Elizabeth (Oxford: Hispanic Society of America, 1946).
References
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2004). Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Thomas, Sir Henry", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2020). Retrieved 10 February 2021.
Further reading
- Victor Scholderer, "Henry Thomas, 1878–1952", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 40 (1954), pp. 241–246.
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