David Pearson - The British Library, Course
Tutor
David Pearson retired in 2017 as Director of Culture, Heritage
and Libraries for the City of London Corporation, after a career
working in various libraries and collections in London and
elsewhere. He is now concentrating on academic work as a book
historian, and is a Research Fellow of the Institute of English
Studies at the University of London, and the Lyell Reader in
Bibliography at Oxford for 2017/18.
He has lectured and published extensively on historic
bookbindings and private libraries and his books include Oxford
Bookbinding 1500-1640 (2000) and English Bookbinding Styles
1450-1800 (2005, new edition 2014). He regularly teaches on the
Rare Book Schools in London and Charlottesville.