Edward Gordon DUFF

Background

DUFF, Edward Gordon was born on February 16, 1863. Youngest son of late Robert Duff.

Education

He was educated at Cheltenham College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he took a degree in classics in 1887.

Career

He began work on a catalogue of incunabula in the Bodleian Library but did not finish the project In 1893 Enriqueta Augustina Rylands appointed Duff her librarian. From 1893 to 1899, he compiled the first catalogue of the John Rylands Library, Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester (Manchester: J East Cornish, 1899).

Henry Guppy was appointed joint librarian in 1899.

Duff resigned from his position at the John Rylands Library in October 1900 and, for the rest of his life, he supported himself by doing freelance work and by taking academic appointments. He was elected Sandars Reader in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge in June 1902.

Duff died at his home in Oxford on 28 September 1924.

Works

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  • The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London: From 1476 to 1535 (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of ...)

  • The Printers, Stationers And Bookbinders Of London And Westminster In The Fifteenth Century - A Series Of Four Lectures Delivered At Cambridge In The Lent Term, 1890.

    (Published in 1899, this early work on Printers, Stationer...)

  • The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and Westminster in the Fifteenth Century - A Series of Four Lectures Delivered at Cambridge in the

    (Published in 1899, this early work on Printers, Stationer...)

  • The printers, stationers and bookbinders of London and Westminster in the fifteenth century. A series of four lectures delivered at Cambridge in the Lent term, MDCCCIC

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535

    (Originally published in 1906, and based on The Sandars Le...)

  • A Century Of The English Book Trade Short Notices Of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, And Others Concerned With It From The Issue Of The First Dated Book In 1457 To The Incorporation Of The Company Of Stationers In 1557. (Paperback) - Common

    (Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)

  • A Century Of The English Book Trade Short Notices Of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, And Others Concerned With It From The Issue Of The First ... Of The Company Of Stationers In 1557.

    (Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)

  • Information for Pilgrims unto the Holy Land - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • A Century Of English Book Trade - Short Notices Of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, And Others Connected With It From The Issue Of The First ... Of The Company Of Stationers In 1557

    (Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)

  • A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and Others Connected with It from the Issue of the First ... of Printing, Publishing and Libraries)

    (Edward Gordon Duff (1863-1924) was a bibliographer and li...)

  • The printers, stationers and bookbinders of London and Westminster in the fifteenth century

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and O (Hardback) - Common

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • A Century of the English Book Trade

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • A century of the English book trade : short notices of all printers, stationers, book-binders, and o

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • The Printers, Stationers And Bookbinders Of London And Westminster In The Fifteenth Century: A Series Of Lectures (1899)

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • The Printers, Stationers, & Book-Binders of Westminster & London from 1476 to 1535

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • Commemoracio lamentacionis sive compassionis Beate Marie. Reproduced in facsimile from the unique copy printed at Westminster by William Caxton, with an introd. by E. Gordon Duff (Latin Edition)

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • A Century Of The English Book Trade: Short Notices Of All Printers, Stationers, Book-binders, And Others Connected With It From The Issue Of The First ... Of The Company Of Stationers In 1557

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Information for Pilgrims unto the Holy Land. (Facsimile ... from the unique copy belonging to the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh.) Edited by E. Gordon Duff.

    ( Title: Information for Pilgrims unto the Holy Land. (Fa...)

  • A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and Others Connected With It from the Issue of the First ... the Company of Stationers (Classic Reprint)

    (List of the Society s Publications. fHE BOOKS printed by ...)

  • A century of the English book trade. Short notices of all printers, stationers, book-binders, and others connected with it from the issue of the first dated book in 1457 to the incorporation of the company of stationers in 1557.

    (Reissue of the 1905 edition. Brenni no.755 for bookbindin...)

  • Early English Printing a Series

    (Preface by E. Gordon Duff. Includes essays on printers Wi...)

  • Century Of English Book Trade, A
  • The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535 THE PRINTERS, STATIONERS AND BOOKBINDERS OF WESTMINSTER AND LONDON FROM 1476 TO 1535 By Duff, E. Gordon ( Author )Feb-03-2011 Paperback By Duff, E. Gordon ( Author )
  • The printers, stationers and bookbinders of London and Westminster in the fifteenth century: A series of four lectures delivered at Cambridge in the Lent term
  • (Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and Westminster in the Fifteenth Century ) Author: E. Gordon Duff Jan-2011
  • A Century of the English Book Trade By Duff, E. Gordon ( Author ) 2011 ) Hardcover
  • Early English Printing: A Series of Facsimiles of All the Types Used in England During the 15th Century (Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series, 371)
  • Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535
  • The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535 By Duff, E. Gordon ( Author ) 2011 ) Paperback
  • (The Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535) Author: E. Gordon Duff published on (April, 2011)

Membership

Club: Athenseum, Liverpool.

• Club: Athenseum, Liverpool.

Interests

• Fishing, swimming, tattooing, book-collecting.

Connections

Father:

Robert Duff