A Critical Edition of the Private Diaries of Robert Proctor: The Life of a Librarian at the British Museum

Proctor (1868-1903) was appointed to the British Museum in 1893 as an assistant in the Department of Printed Books. He produced the Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. The published diaries date from 1899 to 1903. Contents: Foreword by John Goldfinch, Head of Incunabula, British Library Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the text The commentary Abbreviations Used in the Commentary Volume 1: 1 January 1899–3 March 1900 Volume 2: 4 March 1900–16 July 1901 Volume 4: 29 August 1902–28 August 1903 ISTC Index to Incunabula