The Rev Leonard Boyle
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Priest and palaeographer Leonard Boyle entered the Dominican order in 1943 and was ordained priest in 1949. He joined Blackfriars in Oxford, England, where he worked on the Oxford scholastics. He discovered a talent for palaeography during this time. He took his DPhil in 1956 and then moved to Rome, Italy, as Professor of the History of Theology at the Angelicum. He taught at the Basilian Fathers' Seminary in Toronto, Canada, from 1961, becoming a Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies and Professor of Palaeography and Diplomatic in the University of Toronto.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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H.A. Feisenberger
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Bookseller Hellmut Feisenberger studied French at Grenoble University, France, before embarking upon legal studies in Berlin, Germany. He completed his doctorate, but fled to the UK in Jun 1933. He became a junior partner in bookseller Davis and Orioli, and subsequently began to specialize in early scientific literature. He developed a very detailed knowledge of 15th and 16th century texts relating to anatomy, physics, medicine, astronomy and botany. He became a part-time cataloguer at Sotheby's during the second world war, and later set up his own business.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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John Ryder
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Book designer John Ryder was born in Leigh-on-Sea, England, in 1917. He joined John Baker's Phoenix Book Co in 1936, moving to Phoenix House in 1952.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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