Paul W. Nash

Paul W. Nash is bibliographer, printing historian, librarian, editor, printer, book-designer, songwriter, musician, and author of fiction, both serious and tongue-in-cheek. He won the CILIP Walford Award for a sustained contribution to bibliography in 2003, and (with Nicholas Savage et al.) the CILIP Besterman/McColvin medal for an outstanding reference work in the same year, for the rare books catalogue of the British Architectural Library. He was shortlisted for the Library Association Besterman medal in 1998 for "Folio 50". He was co-editor of the bibliophile magazine "The private library" from 1993-2008, and has been editor of the "Journal of the Printing Historical Society" since 2014.