George Parker Winship

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George Parker Winship

Born| 29 July 1871
Bridgewater
Died| 22 June 1952 (aged 80)
Dover
Alma mater|

* Harvard University

Occupation| Librarian, bibliographer
Parent(s)|

* Albert Edward Winship

George Parker Winship (29 July 1871 - 22 June 1952) was an American librarian, author, teacher, and bibliographer born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1893.

## Early life and career[edit]

Went from the Somerville Latin School to Harvard College, where he received an A.B cum laude in 1893 and an A.M. in 1894.[1] He was librarian of a private collection of Americana formed by John Carter Brown at Providence, Rhode Island, from 1895 to 1915.[2] Winship's interest in contemporary fine printing was to some extent connected with the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, of which he became a non-resident member in 1898.[3] Winship was also elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1899.[4]

In 1915 Winship became librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener collection, which had just opened. He was also appointed a lecturer on the history of printing and championed the use of rare books in education. In 1926, he became Assistant Librarian of Widener's Treasure Room, which held Harvard's most precious rare books and manuscripts. Winship remained at Harvard until his retirement in 1936; he died in 1952.[5]

Winship was a scholar as well as a librarian. He edited a number of historical works and published: The Coronado Expedition (1896); John Cabot (1898); Geoffrey Chaucer (1900); Cabot Bibliography (1900); William Caxton (1909); Printing in South America (1912); and The John Carter Brown Library (1914).

Winship's father was American educator Albert Edward Winship; a brother was The Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship.

## Publications[edit]

* The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542 (1896)
* John Cabot (1898)
* The Careers of the Cabots. An Essay (1900)
* Geoffrey Chaucer (1900)
* Cabot Bibliography (1900)
* Boston in 1682 and 1699; A Trip to New England by Edward Ward and a Letter from New England by J.W. (1905)
* Sailors Narratives of Voyages Along the New England Coast, 1524-1624 (1905)
* Early South American Newspapers (1908)
* William Caxton (1909)
* Printing in South America (1912)
* The John Carter Brown Library (1914)
* Luther S. Livingstone 1864-1914 (1915)
* The First Harvard Playwright: A Bibliography of the Restoration Dramatist John Crowne (1922)
* The Eliot Indian Tracts (1925)
* Gutenberg to Plantin: An Outline of the Early History of Printing (1926)
* A Chronological List of the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press (1928)
* The Merrymount Press of Boston (1929)
* The First American Bible: A Leaf from a Copy of the Bible Translated into the Indian Language by John Eliot and Printed at Cambridge in New England in the Year 1663 (1929)
* William Caxton & His Work (1937)
* Printing in the Fifteenth Century (1940)
* The Cambridge Press 1638-1692 (1945)
* Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston Massachusetts, 1860-1894-1941 (1947)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Mitchell, Martha (1993). "Winship, George Parker".
2. ^ Whitehill, Walter Muir (Oct 1953). "George Parker Winship". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 71: 366–375. JSTOR 25080493.
3. ^ Winship, G. Parker (1900). Club of Odd Volumes, 1900. Boston, Massachusetts: University Press. pp. 9–13.
4. ^ "MemberListW | American Antiquarian Society". www.americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
5. ^ "Collection: Papers of George Parker Winship | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-28.

* George Parker Winship as Librarian, Typophile, and Teacher -Edited by Roger Stoddard
* American National Biography entry

## External links[edit]

Media related to George Parker Winship at Wikimedia Commons

* Works by or about George Parker Winship at Internet Archive
* Works by George Parker Winship at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
* The journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the city of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the buffalo plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, as told by himself and his followers, written by Pedro de Castañeda and translated by George Parker Winship, 1922 publication, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
* Sailors Narratives of Voyages Along the New England Coast, 1524-1624 at Project Gutenberg

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