dmund King worked at the British Library from 1975 to 2012. He was a cataloguer and indexer of English and French books. From 1982 to 1997, he was Head of Preparation and Selection programmes for Binding and Conservation, and was Head of Newspaper Collections from 1999 to 2012. He was the Project Director for two major newspaper digitisation projects, which saw three million pages of nineteenth-century newspapers, and one million pages of eighteenth-century newspapers made available online and subsequently worked as part of the team to create the British Newspaper Archive, launched in 2011. His research interest from 1994 has been Victorian publishers’ trade and decorated bindings. Since 2012, he has uploaded some two thousand records into the BL database of bookbindings.
Please note that miscellaneous essays/indexes (from 2014 onwards) by him are available at: http://victorianbookbindings.blogspot.com/
Created 8 December 2023