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In Memoriam Robin Myers
Posted on 08/05/2023 at 14:05Robin Myers passed away on the morning of her 97th birthday on 1 May 2023. The first female President of The Bibliographical Society, which she always referred to as ‘Bib Soc’, Robin was awarded an MBE in 2009 for services to bibliography. I first met Robin in 1979 when she gave a talk to the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on The Stationers’ Company, a year after her appointment as its Honorary Archivist. Robin’s interview may be found here http://www.sheila-markham.com/book-collectors/robin-myers.html
In Memoriam Robin de Beaumont
Posted on 25/02/2023 at 18:02Robin de Beaumont has died at the age of 97. A highly-respected and knowledgeable bookseller who began his working life as an architect, Robin was renowned for his incredible eye for books as physical objects. He pioneered renewed interest in Victorian book illustration, and gave his collection of British wood-engraved illustrated books to the British Museum in the 1990s. Robin’s interview may be found here http://www.sheila-markham.com/interviews/robin-de-beaumont.html
