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Stephen Tabor

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Stephen Tabor is Curator of Early Printed Books at the Huntington Library. Prior to that he was Catalogue/Reference Librarian at UCLA's Clark Library and Senior Bibliographer with the English Short-Title Catalogue, University of California, Riverside. He has published descriptive bibliographies of Sylvia Plath (1987) and Ted Hughes (1983; expanded ed. 1998); the latter, co-authored with Keith Sagar, won the Library Association's Besterman Medal. His catalogue of the work of Los Angeles's Plantin Press (co-authored with Tyrus Harmsen) appeared in 2005, and he has published articles in PBSA and The Library. His current research focuses on the printing of James Shirley's Triumph of Peace (1633/4).

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