Ian Maxted

I have been dabbling in book history since the 1960s. I studied modern languages at university and librarianship at Sheffield University. From 1968 to 1976 I worked as assistant keeper in Guildhall Library in the City of London and from 1977 to 2005 as county local studies librarian for Devon Library Services, based in Exeter. I was chairman of the Local Studies Group of the Library Association (CILIP) and have worked with a wide range of local, regional and national bodies in the field of librarianship and book history in England, France, Germany and Hungary, including the Eighteenth Century (now the English) Short Title Catalogue, the British Book Trade Index, Newsplan, and Prosopographie des gens du livre. My interests concentrate on the later 18th century but also include the incunabula and manuscript period, and cover Exeter, Devon, London, the English provinces, Normandy, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. My blogsites include Exeter Working Papers in Book History (https://bookhistory.blogspot.com/), Devon bibliography (https://devon-bibliography.blogspot.com/) and Maya Miscellany (https://mayamiscellany.blogspot.com/).