biography
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Pollard, Alfred William
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| lived:
| (1859–1944)
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| biography:
| Scholar and bibliographer, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became an assistant at the British Museum (from 1883), and keeper (1919–24). He was reader in bibliography at Cambridge (1915–19), and professor at King's College, London (1919–32). An authority on Chaucer and Shakespeare, his work included A Chaucer Primer (1893) and Shakespeare's Fight with the Pirates (1917). He was largely responsible for the Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland 1475–1640 (1926). |
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