Anthony Robert Alwyn Hobson, FBA (5 September 1921 – 12 July 2014) was a British auctioneer and historian, specialising in the history of books.
His wealthy father, Geoffrey Dudley Hobson (1882–1949), had purchased the auction house Sotheby's in 1909 (with Sir Montague Barlow and Felix Warre) and was a renowned historian of books.
[5][6] Hobson held The Sandars Readership in Bibliography in 1974-1975 and lectured on "Some book collectors, booksellers and binders in sixteenth century Italy."
He was the Lyell Lecturer in Bibliography at the University of Oxford in 1990–1991 lecturing on "Two Renaissance Book-Collectors: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Libraries and Bookbindings.
"[7] He was the Rosenbach Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 on the topic, "The Bibliomania: English Book Collecting in the Early Nineteenth Century."