Paul Needham

Paul Needham became Scheide Librarian at Princeton University in 1998 and retired in 2020. Before coming to Princeton, he worked at Sotheby’s and at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Among his books is Twelve Centuries of Bookbinding: 400–1600 (1979). He has given Rare Book School courses on early printed books both at the Morgan and at the Huntington.

Courses Formerly Offered

• Physical Evidence in Early Printed Books (1988–1991); The Use of Physical Evidence in Early Printed Books (1993, 1996–1999)
• The Study of Incunabula (1983–1984, with Felix de Marez Oyens)

Courses Offered

• G-60. Introduction to 15th-Century Printing
• H-25. Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & Manuscript