Nationality English Name Edward Duff | Role Librarian | |
Born February 16, 1863 ( 1863-02-16 ) Liverpool Alma mater Cheltenham College
Wadham College, Oxford Occupation Bibliographer
Librarian Died September 28, 1924, Oxford, United Kingdom Education Wadham College, Oxford, Cheltenham College Books A century of the English b, Early Printed Books, Printing in England in the Fiftee, The English provincial, Information for Pilgrims Unto the | ||
Edward Gordon Duff (16 February 1863–28 September 1924), known as Gordon Duff, was an English bibliographer and librarian known for his works on early English printing.
Duff was born in Liverpool on 16 February 1863. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he took a degree in classics in 1887. 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. E. 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.
Major works
Revised edition: Printing in England in the Fifteenth century, a reprint of E. Gordon Duff, Fifteenth Century English Books, with supplementary material compiled by Dr Lotte Hellinga. Published by the Bibliographical Society in collaboration with the British Library, 2009.