Gaskell, Philip

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Name (Latin)
Gaskell, Philip
Date of birth
1926-01-06
Date of death
2001-07-31
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 27087270
Wikidata: Q3379014
Library of congress: n 50018227
Sources of Information
  • Standard written English, ©1998:t.p. (Philip Gaskell) p. 4 of cover (fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge)
  • The first editions of William Mason, 1951.
  • Wikipedia, viewed 6 June 2025:Philip Gaskell (bibliographer and librarian; born 6 January 1926 in Highgate, London; following army service, in 1947 went to King's College, Cambridge, to study English; worked at Glasgow University as keeper of the early books in the library and master of Wolfson Hall from 1962, at Trinity College, Cambridge, as librarian and fellow from 1967 until retiring in 1986, holding the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in 1978-1979, and taught as a visitor at Caltech from 1983 to 1988; in 1953 founded a bibliographic press named Water Lane Press in the basement of King's College, Cambridge, which after 2 years fell into abeyance until 1974 when he was able to reestablish bibliographical printing; died 31 July 2001 at Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall)
  • His The first editions of William Mason, 1951.
  • Standard written English, c1998:t.p. (Philip Gaskell) p. 4 of cover (fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge)
  • OCLC, Nov. 5, 1999(hdg.: Gaskell, Philip, 1926-)

Wikipedia description:

Philip Gaskell (6 January 1926 – 31 July 2001) was a British bibliographer and librarian.

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