In the second half of the nineteenth century, when the term science held different connotations from those that it holds today, bibliography was placed on a completely new, rigorously academic footing that facilitated the acceptance of bibliographical studies as an essential tool for scholars working in various disciplines. As one of a group of like-minded scholars and librarians, Henry Bradshaw was responsible for the changes in a discipline that had hitherto been the preserve of amateurs. Bradshaw adopted the same methodology that other disciplines had incorporated through advances being made in the sciences, particularly at the University of Cambridge, his home and workplace for almost all his adult life. Yet if Bradshaw can claim to be the father of modern bibliography, he must also be remembered and appreciated as a great librarian, a man who took the Cambridge University Library through a period of rapid change, by the...