Jan Storm van Leeuwen
Jan Storm van Leeuwen is retired Keeper of the Binding Collection at the Dutch Royal Library in The Hague. He is guest keeper of the Special Collections of Nijmegen University Library. He continues to publish widely in Dutch, English, French, and German on the history of bookbinding. He is an honorary member of the International Association of Bibliophiles, the Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen and the Amis de la Reliure d’Art. He is honorary president of the Belgisch-Nederland Bandengenootschap, a society devoted to the study of bookbindings. His book Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century was awarded a first ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography in September 2010.