Frederic Sutherland Ferguson

Frederic Sutherland Ferguson (26 December 1878, Stoke Newington, London – 4 May 1967, Isle of Wight) was an English bibliographer.

Ferguson joined the firm of Bernard Quaritch in 1897, aged 18. He contributed to Pollard and Redgrave's "A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640" (the STC), and was joint editor of a later edition of the STC.

From 1928 to 1943 he was managing director of Bernard Quaritch Ltd. He retired in 1947, to work in the British Museum on a comprehensive catalogue of early English books. He left his cards and slips to the British Museum, and a collection of 220 Scottish books to the Bodleian Library. [ [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/rbddg.htm Provenance of Rare Books and Printed Ephemera, D to G] ] . In 1954 he had presented 241 early Scottish books to the National Library of Scotland, [ODNB] and other portions of his library are held by the John Rylands Library [ [http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/guide/atoz/ferguson/ Ferguson Collection] ] and the University of Illinois. [Harner, James L., "Ex Libris F. S. Ferguson: A checklist of the F. S. Ferguson collection of Scottish imprints and Scotica at the University of Illinois", 1972]

Works

*(with R. B. McKerrow), "Title-page borders used in England & Scotland 1435-1640", 1932
*"A bibliography of the works of Sir George MacKenzie, lord advocate, founder of the Advocates' library", 1936

References

*E. W. F. Tomlin, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33107 ‘Ferguson, Frederic Sutherland (1878–1967)’] , rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006

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*worldcat id|lccn-n85-293822