Mark Samuels Lasner (born 1952) is a recognized authority on the literature and art of the late Victorian era. He is also a collector, bibliographer and typographer. Samuels Lasner is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library. A graduate of Connecticut College, Samuels Lasner has served as an honorary Curator at several institutions and is active in numerous bibliophile and scholarly organizations. His life s work has, however, been the amassing of what Samuels Lasner calls "A Period Library", one of the country s foremost private collections of books, manuscripts, letters, and artworks by British cultural figures who flourished between 1850 and 1900. His collection comprises 2,500 first and other editions, including many signed and association copies, manuscripts, letters, works on paper, and ephemera.