William Pusey Barlow Jr.

Bill Barlow (elected April 1985) died October 21, 2021. A public accountant, Barlow provided expertise to many nonprofit organizations about charitable contributions. As proprietor of the Nova Press, he printed keepsakes for the Roxburghe Club, whose publications and ephemera he collected. His five-decade collecting career embraced interests in eighteenth-century printing, the history of book collecting and bibliography, and the restaurants recommended by Duncan Hines, along with postal history. He received the Hubert Howe Bancroft Award in 2004 and the Sir Thomas More Medal for Book Collecting in 1989 and served on the faculty of Rare Book School.