David John McKitterick, (born 9 January 1948) is an English

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and academic, who was Librarian and Fellow of

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Early life and education

McKitterick was born on 9 January 1948 to the Revd Canon J. H. B. McKitterick and Marjory McKitterick (née Quarterman). He was educated at

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, a

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. He studied at

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, graduating with a

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(BA) degree in 1969: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a

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(MA Cantab) in 1973. He studied

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, completing a diploma (DipLib) in 1971.

Career

He worked at the

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from 1969 to 1970 and from 1971 to 1986. He was a

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Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded on 28 July 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and wo ...

from 1978 to 1986. He was elected a Fellow of

: he served as its librarian from 1986 to 2015 and its Vice-Master from 2012 to 2016. In 1987 he gave the Englehard Lecture at the

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at the

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. McKittireck became a member of the

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in 1998. He held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the

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in the 1999–2000 academic year and the Sandars Reader in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge in 2000–2001. In 2006, he was made an

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of Historical Bibliography by the

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. He is the author of various works on bibliography and library history, including a history of

in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Personal life

In 1976, McKitterick married

Rosamond McKitterick Rosamond Deborah McKitterick (born 31 May 1949) is an English medieval historian. She is an expert on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the pol ...

, who became the Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. Together they have one daughter.

Honours

On 23 November 1989, McKitterick was elected a

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

(FSA). In 1995, he was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected Publications

*McKitterick, David. 2022. ''Readers in a Revolution: Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century.'' New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David, Phil Cleaver, and Roxburghe Club. 2019. ''The Philobiblon Society: Sociability & Book Collecting in Mid-Victorian Britain.'' London, England: The Roxburghe Club. *McKitterick, David. 2019. “Henry Bradshaw as Librarian.” ''Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society'' 16 (4): 517–34. *McKitterick, David. 2018. ''The Invention of Rare Books: Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840.'' Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David. 2013. ''Old Books, New Technologies: The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books since 1700.'' Cambridge ngland Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David. "Exhibiting the Printed Book." ''The Library'' 7th series, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2010, pp. 127–150. *McKitterick, David. 2010. ''A Changing View from Amsterdam: Where next with Book History?'' Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA. *McKitterick, David. 2009. ''

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.'' Volume 6, 1830-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David. 2005. ''The Trinity Apocalypse (Trinity College Cambridge, MS R.16.2).'' London, Toronto: British Library ; University of Toronto Press. *McKitterick, David. 2003. ''Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450-1830.'' Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David. 1995. ''The Making of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David. 1992. ''A History of Cambridge University Press.'' Cambridge ngland Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David, Edward Bawden, Curwen Press, and Whittington Press. n.d. ''Wallpapers by Edward Bawden Printed at the Curwen Press.'' Andoversford: Whittington Press. *McKitterick, David. 1986. ''Cambridge University Library: A History: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.'' Cambridge ambridgeshire Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David, and Cambridge University Library. 1985. ''Typographers Tallied: The Origin and Growth of the

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Room'', Cambridge University Library. ndoversford Whittington Press. *McKitterick, David, ''Cambridge University Library, and Cambridge University Press. 1984. Four Hundred Years of University Printing and Publishing in Cambridge, 1584-1984: Catalogue of the Exhibition in the University Library'', Cambridge. Cambridge ambridgeshire Cambridge University Press. *McKitterick, David. 1983. ''The Sandars and

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: A Checklist with an Introduction.'' New York: Jonathan A. Hill. *McKitterick, David. 1979."Pepys--And After."

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28 (no 4) Winter: 487-500. *McKitterick, David, and Thomas Knyvett. 1978. ''The Library of Sir Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe, c. 1539-1618.'' ambridge Cambridge University Library.

References

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