Roger Gaskell

After studying biochemistry at the University of Bristol, Roger Gaskell worked for nine years for the leading antiquarian book-sellers in London, Bernard Quartich Ltd. He then moved to Pickering and Chatto Ltd, for which he commissioned editions of the complete works of Malthus, Babbage, Darwin, and Boyle. His field specialties are science, medicine, and engineering. On leaving Pickering in 1979, he began his own business, producing a series of catalogues, which are widely regarded as the most scholarly in the field. In 1999 he took up a Short Term Fellowship at the Clark Library in California to research the bibliography of engraved plates, and he is also engaged in revising Fulton's Bibliography of Robert Boyle.