[3] During the period of his directorship, Cambridge University Press won for the first time the Queen's Award for Export Achievement.
Genot in the Marais, Paris in 1974,[5] he "organized the British contribution",[6] commissioning Quentin Blake to design the poster.
"Many [cartoons] such as those by George Adamson almost leave the field of illustrations to become technically speaking fine art," wrote Betje Howell in her review of the show in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
[7] In 1987 he was appointed Head of Publications and Retailing at the National Portrait Gallery,[8] London, where in the course of his five-year tenure he and his team were involved in the publication of exhibition catalogues and books ranging from Franz Xaver Winterhalter[9] to T. E. Lawrence,[10] from The Raj[11] to a pictorial volume on the NPG's permanent collection.
[13] He advised private collectors as well as museums such as the Wallace Collection, providing them with a full editorial and production service.