#book-history

#book-history

Tom was a working historian or, perhaps, an experimental archeologist of the book, said Nicholas Yeager, who for many years taught bookbinding at San Francisco's Center for the Book. Not only did he train as a librarian, he studied bookbinding and conservation as well as practiced those skills. He also wrote about 19th century toolmaking for bookbinding and woodworking. There will be a huge gap in original research and synthesis of practical experience without his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the book.

Discover the famous Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) who lived in this 1690s townhouse when he wrote his Dictionary of the English Language. The son of a bookseller from Lichfield, Johnson walked to London in 1737 in search of fame and fortune. While fortune evaded him, Johnson's fame was assured with the publication of his Dictionary of the English Language in 1755, from which he became known as 'Dictionary Johnson'.