Ian Crofton

Ian Crofton has compiled many works of reference, books of quotations and miscellanies over the yers, including A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (with Donald Fraser), A Dictionary of Art Quotations, The Guinness Encyclopedia (as editor-in-chief), Brewer’s Dictionary of Curious Titles, and, with John Ayto Brewer’s Britain and Ireland and the 2nd edition of Brewer’s Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable. He lives in North London.