Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel Besterman was one of the most distinguished and productive bibliographers and editors of the second and third quarters of the twentieth century. His many projects were frequently farsighted, always ambitious, and usually carried out with the most single-minded dedication to their completion. Following a scholarly and increasingly skeptical series of works on Theosophy and psychical research during the 1920s and early 1930s, he gradually turned his attention to the areas of historical and systematic bibliography, publishing significant monographs in each subject prior to World War II. He will, however, be remembered primarily for his enormous bibliographic and editorial achievements over the next three and one- half decades, including A World Bibliography of Bibliographies (1939-1940), British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals (1955-1958), and his editing of the Journal of Documentation. During the last fifteen years of his life he entered into yet another incredibly prolific career as an...