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Henry Graham Pollard (known as Graham Pollard) (7 March 1903 – 15 November 1976) was a British bookseller and bibliographer.
In 1937, Harry Carter, Ellic Howe, Alfred F. Johnson, Stanley Morison and Graham Pollard started to produce a list of all known pre-1800 type specimens. The list was published in The Library in 1942. However, because of the war, many libraries at the European continent were not accessible anymore.
In 1939, the bookshop partnership ended and Pollard became a special lecturer at University College, London before joining the Board of Trade in 1942; whilst this was supposedly a temporary appointment, he remained until retirement in 1959. He maintained his bibliographical interests, publishing an edition of The Earliest Directory of the Book Trade by John Pendred (1785), and lecturing in Cambridge shortly before his retirement.
In 1960-1961 he held the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford and lectured on "The Medieval Book Trade in Oxford.""Graham Pollard," The Book Collector 26 (no.1) Spring, 1977: 7- 28.
During his retirement, he was president from 1960 to 1962 of the London Bibliographical Society, which awarded him its gold medal in 1969. He also lectured in the United States in 1973, and received a volume of essays published in his honour by the Oxford Bibliographical Society in 1975.Richard William Hunt, ed. Studies in the Book Trade: In Honour of Graham Pollard. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975. He died at the Radcliffe Infirmary on 15 November 1976.
The "Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture" in his memory is given annually. In 2025 the lecture, "The Stationers and the Poor Law," was given by David Shaw. Graham Pollard Memorial Lecture 2025Shaw, David. "The Stationers and the Poor Law." April 15, 2025.
In 2018, it was alleged in Henry Hemming's M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster that Pollard spied on the Communist Party for Maxwell Knight and the British security services.
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