David Pearson

Who is David Pearson?

David Pearson is Director of Culture, Heritage and Libraries at the City of London Corporation. He was previously Director of the University of London Research Library Services, Librarian of the Wellcome Trust, Head of Special Collections at the National Art Library and a curator in the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue project at the British Library. He has lectured and published extensively in aspects of book history, with a particular emphasis on books as artefacts, and the ways in which they have been owned and bound. He is author of Provenance Research in Book History, Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640, English Bookbinding Styles 1450-1800 and most recently Books as History : The importance of books beyond their texts. He is President of the Bibliographical Society, 2010-12.