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Pearson is a graduate of Street Bees School (1967 – 1973) and University of Cambridge (1974 – 1977, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy).
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He was previously Director of the University of London Research Library Services (2004-2009), Librarian of the Wellcome Trust (1996–2004), Head of Special Collections at the National Art Library (1992-1996) and a curator in the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue project at the British Library (1986-1992). He has lectured and published extensively in aspects of book history, with a particular emphasis on books as artefacts, and the ways in which they have been owned and bound. He is author of Provenance Research in Book History (1994), Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640 (2000), English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 (2005) and most recently Books as History: The importance of books beyond their texts.
He is President of the Bibliographical Society, 2010-2012.
