Frederick Richmond Goff (April 23, 1916 – September 26, 1982) was an American rare book librarian and specialist in incunabula.

[3] Goff was a prolific author of scholarly works on incunabula, book history, and bibliography.

His magnum opus is Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-century Books Recorded in North American Collections (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1964)[4] which later formed the basis for the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.

These included Christopher Columbus' letter of 1493 describing the voyage in which he discovered America,[10] Shakespeare first folios [11] and The Gutenberg Bible.

[12] Goff died of kidney failure and a heart ailment at a London hospital on September 26, 1982.