Here is a select list of my bibliographical publications (with links where possible)

1992

‘The Dropmore and Queen Anne Presses’ in The private library (Autumn 1992, pp. 109–134). ‘Addendum’ in The private library (Winter 1993, pp. 181–[183]).

‘A nice young man: Viscount Carlow and the Corvinus Press’ in Matrix 12 (1992, pp. 67–77, 219–221). With A. J. Flavell.

1993

‘A previously unrecorded book from the Corvinus Press’ in The Bodleian Library record (XIV, 1993, pp. 251–255).

‘Notable books: The diary of T.E. Lawrence MCMXI’ in The private library (Winter 1993, pp. 178–181).

1994

The Corvinus Press: a history and bibliography. Aldershot: Scolar, 1994. With A.J. Flavell. Addenda and corrigenda (2002).

‘The wet grass of bookishness: Hubert J. Foss as book designer’ in Matrix 14 (1994, pp. 139–148). With Peter Foden.

1995

Early printed books: catalogue of the British Architectural Library, Early Imprints Collection. Volumes II–V. London etc: Bowker-Saur (later K.G. Saur), 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2003. With Nicholas Savage, et al. (Winner of the CILIP Besterman/McColvin medal, 2003).

1997

Folio 50: a bibliography of the Folio Society 1947–1996. London: Folio Press and British Library, 1997. (Shortlisted for the Library Association’s Besterman medal, 1998).

 ‘Collecting private press books’ in The private library (Winter 1997, pp. 145–181).

1998 

 ‘Joel Biroco and the Herculaneum Press’ in The private library (Summer 1998, pp. 77–91).

2000

‘Folio Fine Editions’ in Parenthesis (4, April 2000, pp. [22]–24).

‘Adventures in typography: Viscount Carlow, T. E. Lawrence and the Corvinus Press’ in The private library (Spring 2000, pp. [4]–47).

‘Notable books: Homo intelligens’ in The private library (Summer 2000, pp. 181–190).

‘Notable books: The palace of architecture’ in The private library (Winter 2000, pp. 83–87).

2001

‘The abandoning of the long s in Britain in 1800’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society (New series 3, 2001, pp. 3–19). Also available at Humanities Commons, here.

‘The Oxford Guild of Printers’ Millennium project’ in The private library (Summer 2001, pp. 82–89).

‘Pinxit, sculpsit, excudit, etcetera: some notes on the lettering which appears on plates’ in The private library (Winter 2001, pp. 148–187). Plus ‘Some additional notes ...’ in The private library (Summer 2003, pp. 87–89).

2002

Private press books 1992–2010. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2002–2019. 10 volumes. With Margaret Lock, Asa Peavey, et al.

‘The Agathynian Club’ in The private library (Summer 2002, pp. 81–101).

2003

‘Rare architectural books’ in The private library (3 parts, Spring 2003, Winter 2003, Spring 2004).

‘Cataloguing rare books at the Royal Institute of British Architects’ in Refer (Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 7–12).

2004

‘Notable books: Eight letters from T.E.L.’ in The private library (Summer 2004, pp. [77]–85).

‘The “first” type of Gutenberg: a note on recent research’ in The private library (Summer 2004, pp. [86]–96). Also available at Humanities Commons here.

‘Hansard’s typographical bank-note’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society (New series 7, Autumn 2004, pp. 55–70).

‘Notable books: Plans, elevations, sections and details of the Alhambra’ in The private library (Autumn 2004, pp. 105–120, pl. III–VI).

‘Notable books: Behind us’ in The private library (Autumn 2004, pp. 121–134, pl. VII–VIII).

‘Private press books … a review’ in Matrix 24–31 (2004–2013). A regular column reviewing recent private press publications.

2005

Journal of the Printing Historical Society: index nos 1 to 28, 1965–1999. London: Printing Historical Society, 2005.

‘Central Saint Martins and the Folio Society’ in Sylvia Backemeyer (editor), Picture this: the artist as illustrator. London: Central Saint Martin’s, 2005, pp. 116–134.

‘The Cock Robin Press of Peter Beavan’ in The private library (Spring 2005, pp. [4]–32).

‘The electronic book’ in The private library (Winter 2005, pp. 148–152).

‘Notable books: Francis Meynell’s keepsake for the A.I.G.A.’ in The private library (Winter 2005, pp. 172–183).

2006 

Bibliophiles at Oxford: a celebration of fifty years of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 1951–2000, with descriptive notes on the term cards. Witney: Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles, 2006. With Justin Howes.

The private library (Spring 2006). April Fools issue of the journal, consisting entirely of spoof and fictional bibliographical matter (published to mark the PLA’s fiftieth anniversary). Edited, illustrated and largely written (with a contribution from Richard Faircliff).

2007

Folio 60: a bibliography of the Folio Society 1947–2006. London: Folio Press, 2007.

‘The distaff side: a short history of female printers’ in Ultrabold: the St Bride journal (2 parts, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007). Reprinted, in revised form, in the proceedings of a conference: Memoria las otras letras: mujeres impresoras en la Biblioteca Palafoxiana. [Puebla: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, 2009], pp. 69–79.

‘Publications of the Private Libraries Association: a descriptive checklist’ in A modest collection: the Private Libraries Association 1956–2006. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2007.

‘The printing of A house of pomegranates’ in The private library (Spring 2007, pp. 27–39).

‘Bibliographical spoofs and parodies’ in The private library (Winter 2007, pp. [188]–208).

2009

‘The Samson Press archive at the Bodleian’ in The Bodleian Library record (21:2, October 2008 [i.e. 2009], pp. 256–261).

2010

Oxford companion to the book. 2 vols. Oxford: University Press, 2010. Substantial contributions in the areas of printing technology and history, including the main article on private presses.

2015

An epitome of the history of printing in sixteen leaves. [London]: Printing Historical Society, 2014 [i.e. 2015]. A history of printing, printed by the techniques described.

‘The Woodlands Press’ in Parenthesis 28 (2015, pp. 30–35). With Hugh Macfarlane.

‘The wits who beset Sir Richard Blackmore’ in St Edmund Hall magazine (XVIII:6, 2015, pp. 143–149). An expanded text of the same article was published on the Hall website and is available through acadmia.edu and Humanities Commons here.  

2016

‘Scaleboard: interlinear spacing before leading’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 25 (Winter 2016), pp. 71–83.

2017

 ‘The first edition of Holtzapffel’s manual for amateur printers, 1839: a facsimile’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, new series 27 (Winter 2017), pp. 5–48. A facsimile with introduction, annotations and appendices.

 ‘Two rare table-top presses at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, new series 27 (Winter 2017), pp. 49–60. Also available at Humanities Commons here.

2019

‘The PHS Keepsake: an epitome of the history of printing in sixteen leaves’ in Parenthesis 36 (Spring 2019), pp. 20–25.

‘A checklist of published books’ in Edmund Marsden, edtor, Reverting to type: recollections of the Compton Press, book printers & publishers 1968–1980. London: Julian Berry, 2019, pp. 79–90.

‘“An American bookbuilder”: R. Guy Powell’s Loyd Haberly collection’, Trinity College newsletter (Spring 2019), pp. 18–19. With Alison Felstead.

‘A note on Peter Schoeffer’s book-list of “1470”’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 31 (Winter 2019), pp. 120–159. Also available at Humanities Commons here.

2020

‘Two hundred years of publisher’s cloth’ in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 3rd series 1 (2020), pp. 214–304. Also available at Humanities Commons here.

‘The Samson Press’ in Matrix 34 (2020), pp. 75–85.

2021

‘Private press books: recording publications 1959–2010’ in Parenthesis 40 (Spring 2021), pp. 16–19.

2022

‘“Short-casting” and “slugs”: type-making technologies before “1452”’, 2022 Jikji international forum report (conference proceedings, Cheong-ju: Early Printing Museum, 2022), pp. 411–441.

2023

‘The Norwich Printing Museum’, in Multiples (journal of the Society of Wood Engravers) 57 (February 2023), pp. 11–14.

‘What was a printing shop and what happened there?’ in Adam Smyth, editor, The Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England. Oxford: University Press, 2023, pp. [157]–175.

‘The Arte de imprenta: the first Mexican printing manual, prepared for Alejandro Valdés’, Journal of the Printing Historical Society, third series 4 (2023), pp. 7–132. Translated and extensively revised from Marina Garrone Gravier’s monograph ElArte de ymprenta: de don Alejandro Valdés (1819) (México: FOEM, 2018).

2024 

‘The publications of the Oxford Bibliographical Society: design and production 1922–2022’ (with a bibliographical checklist, index and appendix of Society officers) in Essays to mark the centenary of the Oxford Bibliographical Society. Oxford: The Society, 2024, pp. 43–119, 241–250.