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Robin Alston (1933-2011). Lecturer in philology at the University of New Brunswick
(1958–60) and the University of Leeds (1964–76). Founder of the Scolar Press. In 1977 he
became a consultant to the British Library and from 1978 to 1989 he was editor-in-chief
of the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, now called the English Short Title Catalogue .
He was Professor of Library Studies at the University of London from 1990 to 1998.
Among Alston’s many publications were A Bibliography of the English Language !om the
Invention of Printing to the Year 1800 (18 vols, 1965–2006).