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Laurence Worms has owned and run Ash Rare Books since 1971. He represented the antiquarian book trade on the (British) National Book Committee from 1993 to 2002 and has been three times an elected member of the Council of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (International). He was largely responsible for drafting the revised Rules of the Association and the Association's Code of Good Practice introduced in 1997 and served as Honorary Secretary of the Association from 1998 to 2001. He is a former member of the Council of the Bibliographical Society and continues to serve on the Council of the London Topographical Society. He is also a founder member and Fellow of the Rare Book Society. He writes and lectures on various aspects of the history of the book and map trades, and gave the annual Helen Wallis Memorial Lecture at the Cartography 2003 conference at Reading University. Recent work includes the compilation of fourteen "lives" for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the chapter on early English maps and atlases for the fourth volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. A major essay on the same subject is due to appear in The History of Cartography now in the course of publication by the University of Chicago Press. In the summer of July 2007, he will teaching at the new London Rare Books School and is preparing further courses for Summer 2008 and beyond. | |
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