E. Gordon (Edward Gordon) Duff

Edward Gordon Duff was a British bibliographer and librarian best known for his work on early printed books. Born in 1863 and dying in 1924, he developed a strong reputation as a careful scholar of printing history and bibliography.

He served as librarian of the John Rylands Library in Manchester from 1893 to 1900, and he was also appointed Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge on multiple occasions. His research and cataloging work helped make the history of the hand-press period more accessible to later scholars, librarians, and collectors.

Duff is still remembered in the world of rare books and bibliography for the precision of his work and for the lasting influence of his studies of early English printing.