Philip Gaskell
Philip Gaskell (6 January 1926 – 31 July 2001) was a British
bibliographer and librarian.[1]
Life
He was born on 6 January 1926 in
Quaker. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and at Oundle School. In 1947, after army service, he went to King's College, Cambridge, and studied English under Dadie Rylands.[1][2]
At
Glasgow University, Gaskell worked from 1962 as keeper of the early books in the library, and master of Wolfson Hall. He then served as librarian and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was at Trinity and the Wren Library from 1967 to retirement in 1986, initially a period of the Library's reconstruction.[1][2]
Gaskell later taught as a visitor at
Caltech during the period 1983–1988, while investigating the possible application of bibliographical techniques to film.[2] His pupils included Donald Francis McKenzie, professor of English at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, then Oxford, and James Mosley, librarian of the St Bride printing library.[1]
Gaskell died at Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall, on 31 July 2001.[2]
Works
Gaskell's books included an updating and replacement[3] of Ronald Brunlees McKerrow's Introduction to Bibliography. According to The Guardian newspaper,
his New Introduction To Bibliography (1972, latest revision 1985) was revolutionary in treating the object of bibliography as not just the text but all the processes that had gone into making it. It has become a classic, used all over the world.[1]
He was also noted for a pioneering bibliography of the 18th-century Birmingham printer,
- Standard Written English: A Guide
- Landmarks in English Literature
- From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method
- Landmarks in Classical Literature
- Morvern Transformed (1968)[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Barker, Nicolas (11 September 2001). "Obituary: Philip Gaskell". The Guardian.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76118. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "It is a new book, not a revision of McKerrow...", Preface, A New Introduction to Bibliography
- ^ "Philip Gaskell". www.goodreads.com.
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