Henry Thomas (bibliographer)

Sir Henry Thomas, FBA was an English bibliographer and Hispanic scholar. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, he worked at the British Museum from 1903 to 1947, where he was successively Deputy Keeper, Keeper and Principal Keeper of Printed Books. He delivered the Norman MacColl lectures at the University of Cambridge and the Taylorian Lecture at the University of Oxford, was president of the Anglo-Spanish Society and the Bibliographical Society, was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1936, and knighted in 1946; he received DLitt degrees from the University of Birmingham and the University of London.

Selected works

The Romance of Amadís of Gaul.The Palmerin Romances.Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry.Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in Spain and of Spanish Books Printed elsewhere in Europe before 1601 Now in the British Museum.Shakespeare and Spain.Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in France and of French Books Printed in Other Countries from 1470 to 1600 Now in the British Museum.Spanish Sixteenth-Century Printing.

The Beginnings of Printing in London.Monster and Miracle.
The Star of Seville.The Discovery of Abyssinia by the Portuguese in 1520.The Crafty Farmer. A Spanish Folk-Tale. Illustrated by Gregorio Prieto.Early Spanish Bookbindings, XI–XV Centuries.Short-Title Catalogue of Portuguese Books Printed before 1601 Now in the British Museum.Short-Title Catalogue of Spanish-American Books Printed before 1601 Now in the British Museum.Anti-English Propaganda in the Time of Queen Elizabeth.