Friends of the Centre for the Book will be sad to learn that Dr. Keith Maslen passed away Monday night, peacefully, at Ross Home, after a few months with an inoperable cancer.

Founder of the Otakou Press as the Bibliography Room in the 1960s, Keith was a renowned historian of the printing of the Bowyers in London in the eighteenth century, as well as one of the three editors of Book and Print in NZ.  Keith has an entry in the Oxford Companion to the Book dedicated to his work.  He was a generous scholar who will be deeply missed.

The funeral will be held at Hope and Sons, Anderson Bay Rd., Dunedin on Saturday, 3 September at 2 pm.  The service will also be livestreamed; details at www.tributes.co.nz.