Purchases from the Robert S. Pirie Collection, Part I

Elizabeth DeBold

is a postgraduate researcher in early modern British social history and culture at Newcastle University in the UK. After a ten-year career in libraries, she now focuses on the human labour of the book and print trades during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her doctoral project examines the lives and social networks of the apprentices who came to London to learn how to make their living at the press or in the bookshop. She is owned by two cats, John Quincy and Abigail. She was formerly the Assistant Curator at the Folger Shakespeare Library. — View all posts by Elizabeth DeBold