Biography

Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872-1940), bibliographer and literary scholar, was born at Putney in 1872, the son of a civil engineer, and was educated at Harrow, King's College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. After leaving university he spent three years teaching English in Tokyo before beginning a period of intense literary and bibliographical study, largely at the British Museum, two important results of which were his classic edition of the works of Thomas Nashe (1904–10) and his Notes on Bibliographical Evidence (1914). The latter, revised as An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (1927), became a standard work. From 1914 McKerrow also gave lectures in English literature, and later bibliography, at King's College, London. In 1917 McKerrow was appointed managing director of the publishers Sidgwick & Jackson, which became his principal occupation till his death.

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