Frederic Sutherland Ferguson (26 December 1878 in Stoke Newington,

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– 4 May 1967 in

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) was an

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. He was educated at the Grocers' Company's School, Hackney Downs, and at King's College London, but did not take a degree. Ferguson joined the firm of

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in 1897. 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. He also compiled ''Title-page borders used in England & Scotland 1435-1640'' (with R. B. McKerrow), 1932; and ''A bibliography of the works of Sir George MacKenzie, lord advocate, founder of the Advocates' Library'', 1936. From 1928 to 1943 he was managing director of Bernard Quaritch Ltd. He retired in 1947, to work in the

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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. In 1954 he had presented 241 early Scottish books to the National Library of Scotland, and other portions of his library are held by the

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and the

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. Ferguson was President of the Bibliographical Society (1950–1952) and received the Society'
Gold Medal
in 1951.

References

*E. W. F. Tomlin
‘Ferguson, Frederic Sutherland (1878–1967)’
rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferguson, Frederic Sutherland 1878 births 1967 deaths Alumni of King's College London People educated at Hackney Downs School English bibliographers Presidents of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association

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