Graham Shaw is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, specializing in the history of the book. After a career of thirty-six years in the British Library, he retired in 2010 as Head of Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (including the India Office Library & Records). For the past forty years he has published widely on the history of printing and publishing in South Asia from the 16th to the 20th centuries.