TY - BOOK ID - 77892529 TI - A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor : The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum AU - Bowman, J.H. AU - Bowman, J. H PY - 2010 SN - 0773429948 9780773429949 9780773436343 0773436340 PB - Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, DB - UniCat KW - Bibliographers -- England -- Diaries. KW - British Museum -- Officials and employees -- Diaries. KW - Incunabula -- Bibliography -- Methodology. KW - Librarians -- England -- Diaries. KW - Proctor, Robert, b. 1868 -- Diaries. KW - Bibliographers KW - Librarians KW - Incunabula KW - General KW - Bibliography - General KW - Early printed books KW - Cradle books (Early printed books) KW - Incunables KW - Books KW - Information scientists KW - Library employees KW - Libraries KW - Methodology KW - Bibliography KW - 09 <092 PROCTOR, ROBERT> KW - 09 <092 PROCTOR, ROBERT> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Biografieën--PROCTOR, ROBERT KW - Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Biografieën--PROCTOR, ROBERT KW - Bibliography&delete& KW - Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Biografieën--PROCTOR, ROBERT KW - Proctor, Robert, KW - British Museum KW - Daiei Hakubutsukan KW - Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī KW - Museo Británico KW - Britské muzeum v Londýně KW - Briṭish Muzeʼon KW - Ta Ying po wu kuan KW - Da Ying bo wu guan KW - Museum Britannicum KW - Great Britain. KW - בריטיש מוזיאום KW - מוזיאון הבריטי KW - 大英博物館 KW - British Library KW - Officials and employees KW - Proctor, Robert George Collier, KW - Proctor, R. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77892529 AB - Robert Proctor will always be remembered among bibliographers for two things: for his rearrange¬ment of the incunabula in the British Museum in what has become known as 'Proctor order', based on the way in which printing spread in its early days; and for the mystery which continues to surround his death. Born in 1868, he was appointed to the British Museum in 1891, and in 1898 he published his Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. In 1899 he started to keep a private diary, and this lasted until his death in 1903. One of the volumes is missing, but the remaining three are edited and published for the first time here. ER -